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YUVACHARYA MAHAPRAJNA ON SOCIAL SCIENCES OF NON-VIOLENCE
Dashrath Singh
Yuvāchārya Mahāprajña, the disciple of Āchārya Sri Tulsi, expreseed in detail his views on the different branches of Social Sciences of non-violence, in a seven-day Symposium organised by Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, Ladoun from Feb. 15, 1993 to Feb, 21, 1993. In the Symposium, the scholars from different parts of India participated and expressed their views on various aspects of Social Sciences viz. society, politics, economic system, educational system and psychology and pondered over how to develop them in the line of Non-violence. It is worthwhile to note here that the Jain Vishva Bharati Iostitute (Deemed University) Ladnun is an international centre of value-education and has distinguished itself from the other universities of the country. The main inspirations of the Institute are Achārya Sri Tulsi and Yuvāchārya Sri Mahāprajña. They are deeply involved in evolving a pattern of education based on spiritual, moral and human values to prepare scientific-spiritual personality of human beings.
Before going into details of the problem of introduction of non-violence in social sciences, it was felt that nonviolence is an integrated concept and foundation of all sorts of values and it is deeply related with the different aspects of society and social life. Non-violence, according to Yuvācharya Sri, is essential for life as well as for society. He opines that the cause of all-round deterioration in public life is that our social scientists have neglected the role of non-violence in developing social sciences and framing policies accordingly. This is the main reason that our society is being threatened by terrorism and different types of conflicts in it. Due to the neglect of non
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