Training in Nonviolence

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Anuvrat Global Organization

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What needs to be emphasized is that physical, mental, emotional and economic health contributes to the creation of a nonviolent society. They have, therefore, to be the bases of training in nonviolence.
The base and field of experimentation in training in nonviolence
The success of the methodology of training in nonviolence depends on the development of an individual mentality irrevocably committed to nonviolence. This has to be practised in the following areas:
Individual as a member of the family
Individual as a social being
· Individual as a citizen of a nation
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Foundation of Training in Nonviolence
• Individual as a citizen of the world.
Today people are divided ideologically and regionally. But nonviolence requires a unified and integrated personality. In order to develop it, a multidimensional programme of training is necessary. The thought of a nonviolent society disregarding the individual is as illusory as that of a nonviolent individual without a nonviolent society. The two are relative to each other. This basic fact should not be ignored while thinking of training in nonviolence.
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Anuloma-Viloma are concerned with the methods and techniques of inhalation and exhalation. In anuloma, inhalation is through both nostrils as in ujjayi, and exhalation is alternative through either nostril as in narhishodhan. Chandrabhedhi: In this Pranayam, inhalation is through the left nostril and exhalation through the right nostril. The moon, in the skull above the hard palate, has a cooling effect.
Prof. Dayanand Bhargava speaking at the Nonviolence Leadership Training Camp
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