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violence in social sciences, the politics of today has become nothing more than mere diplomacy. Economics has become responsible for imbalanced growth which has failed to achieve welfare of humankind. Education, by neglecting values, has become inert and uninspiring. Instead of promoting culture, it promotes perversion, and psychology is unable to transform the consciousness of human beings. Therefore, Yuvāchārya Sri feels that there is great need to think, explore and experiment on the social sciences of non-violence and to relate them to different aspects of society, and administration. He feels that training in non-violence is the need of the hour. Eeonomics of Non-Violence
Referring to the economics as a whole and economic policy in particular, he points out about the sevenfold needs of human kind-food, clothes, accommodation, ornaments, marriage, desires for offsprings and sensual gratifications. Therefore, all the things which satisfy these needs are called wealth. Wealth, according to him, is very deeply related to human life but it is not an end in itself. It is only a means for the welfare of human beings. Therefore, Yuvachārya Sri holds that the fundamentals of our economic policy should be based on health, education, mental peace and purity of life. He expresses his dissatisfaction with the present model of development based on absolute capitalism and absolute socialism, both of which are founded on materialism only and have no consideration for purity of means. The present model is also unsatisfactory on the ground that it lays emphasis on the augmentation of necessities, production and consumption. In brief, it promotes consumerism which creates complicated problems in our society. Consumerism is detrimental to human welfare.
Bad habits, tiredness, tension, need for entertainment, mechanical life, taking intoxicants, crimes, drinking, increase in the number of policemen, jails, mental hospitals and clinics-all are nothing but the result of the
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