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The participants in or at a nonviolence training camp are taught techniques to control strong emotions. They are helped to practise and master these techniques. It provides a solution for one aspect of the problem. Either training in nonviolence without training in the tools of self-employment, or training in the tools of self-employment without training in nonviolence, are inadequate to solve the problem of violence in our own hearts and in society. The problem of violence can be solved only when training in nonviolence and providing bread join hands. That is why both aspects have been included in the course module of nonviolence training. The experiment of training in nonviolence should be carried out first at the individual level, then at family level and finally at the level of social and institutional consciousness. On the basis of this formula all sections of society can live a life of peaceful co-existence. Affluence is no less a cause of violence than poverty. When the rich people indulge in exploitation, excessive consumption and ostentation, it foments reactive violence. Such acts of the rich may not become the direct cause of violence, but they become strong factors leading indirectly to violence. One aspect of nonviolence training is to limit one's consumption and to renounce an excess of wealth. The complete structure of nonviolence training is based on this very concept. 26th Dec. 2007
- Acharya Mahapragya Rajsamand (Raj.) INDIA
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