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rise of man, the content of human consciousness is violence. Man has emerged as a violent species and the violence is stored as memory, or cultural belief structure in the human brain. Physical violence is that you shoot with a gun, or you throw a bomb, or you hit/slap/injure. Psychological violence is the inward anger, hatred, wanting or dominate people, not only physical domination, but the domination of ideas. The inward violence is psychological dependence, imitation, conformity, domination; it results in rupture and opposition to the laws of nature. Obviously, physical violence is a projection of the psychological violence. There is only 'what is', that is, I am violent. Psychologically, inwardly, there is only the fact. When the mind is engaged in inward violence, it constructs a thought what “I should be”--for example, you are violent and you construct a projection that "I should be non-violent". The non-violence is an idea, a concept, a non-fact, not actuality. Self-defence, at this level, is justifying the violent idea; and this justification constructs the non-fact, the ideal, an escape route. The root of self-defence is momentum of the past thought and its projection in the future, which, is. in principle, the past. It is illusory, it is false. There is always conflict between the violence, the fact, what I am, and the non-violence, the non-fact, what I should be. This conflict brings in psychological time and time is the source of pain, misery and suffering.
The whole nation (and perhaps the whole mankind) is governed by the psychological imbalance, which is not knowing 'what is' and action is oriented from 'what should be'. The psychological imbalances or "bottled violence" in 1947 in India, resulted in communal riots. The Congress President of the A.I.C.C. in 1947! said that "Gandhiji had not been able to show the way of combating communal: strife in a non-violent manner as he had done in the case of fighting the British". We started living with nonviolence, which is an idea of the opposite, and we forgot the violence, the fact. Gandhi admitted, “India's Satyagraha was a very imperfect instrument in that direction.
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