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for mankind and its environments; so pure non-violent mind is fruit. We opine that the secret of perfection of the instrument of non-violence lay in the holistic education, the sarvodaya. So we appeal to educationists, media, social workers, the Government to extend a helping hand in trying the collective experiment of holistic education.
We have to undertake a collective experiment on sarvodaya (science of life to achieve welfare of all), on holistic education, on dynamic interplay of science and spirituality, to be attentive to the dynamics of the 'without” and the "within”, simultaneously. The word experiment implies to explore into ourselves like scientist. A mind that is enquiring, that is aware, that observes "what is" in itself, is self-understanding, self-knowing. The exploration into oneself implies seeing and learning the violence, and when seeing is sustained the violence disappears and non-violence simultaneously expresses itself. An understanding of violence, the dynamics of mind, opens the doors to truth.
The substratum of ahimsa is the unity of all life, the oneness of all life. The essence is the unfragmentable homogeneous wholeness. This suggests the urgency that man should undertake a collective experiment in holistic education so that we rise collectively in the level of consciousness. Education, at the individual level, aim transformation of a violent mind to a non-violeat mind; education, at the collective level, prepares the nation to protect the country by the power of non-violence of the brave. The holistic education aims at increasing the "level of perception", the "level of sensitivity", so that the new educational edifice has its foundation on nonviolence as its means aad truth as the end. This awakens the consciousness of means and ends”, which is valueperception. The secret of our survival lies to the extent to which mankind undertakes a collective experiment on holistic education.
To sum up, the present educational structure promotes violence of mind, and as such bound to lead us to a
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