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like, where everything including the mind must be healthy.
The natural law of life is non-violence. Nature has achieved physical homeostasis for man; man has now to achieve mental homeostasis for himself, by himself, through the organic capacities which nature has endowed him with. The mental homeostasis means healing the mind-brain equipment, which is a journey from violence to "non-violence of the brave”.
Disease is absolutely unnatural. Disease is a function of the way we think, our various life-styles, the tremendous conflict which exists within ourselves as individuals, the violence in the mind. Anxiety or worry is living here in the future. Depression or regret is living in the past. When the internal fragmentation, which is violence, ends, the disease also ends. In non-violence there is no disease, it is perfect health both within and its outer manifestation.
The healing requires an integration of body, mind and spirit, so the healing is a natural by-product. Healing implies the individual, the society, the eco-system, the total healing of the planet. Healing can take place when there is “non-violence of the brave" at the individual level and the non-violence expresses itself in the society, ecosystem and environments.
Education for Ahimsa : It is the task of education, at the individual level, to attain self-sufficiency in learning, to attain capacity to self-educate oneself; this implies to understand the art of seeing, the art of hearing, the art of action, the art of meditation, and the art of living Education has a social and national goal, which is freedom from fear, to strengthen the forces of love and peace, to perceive the truth. A complete structure of education, of learning and teaching based on profound revelations by J. Krishnamurti and Vimala Thakar has been worked out. The holistic education bestows a holistic vision of life. The holistic vision implies that action is not governed by thought, and the we call as non-violence of the brave and stout at heart. The holistic education cultivates the concept of ahimsa, which bestows on us, love and compassion
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