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VIOLENCE & NON-VIOLENCE
• Parmeshwar Solanki
Today violence seems to have grabbed the entire globe. People preaching violence have deep faith in what they hold. They firmly believe that non-violence can never lead them to success. It is miracle of the use of violence that it accomplishes the job more quickly than performing the task by non-violence. The violent person entertains no doubt in his mind about his ability to accomplish the job,
Undoubtedty the cult of violence has its hay day to day. Look at a mother, she coaxes her child but he remains recalcitrant, then she beats him and the child submits. So she believes the logic that as long as a child is not beaten, he would remain incorrigible. Spare the rod and spoil the child'. In a similar way, man sees in every walk of his life that violence is the magic which immediately achieves what cannot be accomplished by persuasion of non-violence. So, he also believes in violence.
Furthermore, there is no need for propagation of violence for the violent man. He succeeds every where. And a systematic training in coordinated arrengement of working in violence is imparted to police and army cadets. They are taught how to strike, how to apprehend culprit, how to torture or how to disperse a procession. For all this, there is a systematic education in violence. Ample money is spent to add the instruments of violence. Billions and billions of rupees go into armaments. Huge factories are built to manufacture and experiments are made to try out this weaponry.
The resoures of violence are unlimited-those of non-violence are limited. Actually no investment are made in non-violence. No endeavours are taken in hand to spread its message. No experiments, no research takeplace, nor any kind of materials are provided to it. All that exist are the institutions of non-violence, mostly private NGO's working here and there in negligible quantity.
However in the world of to-day, how can one dismiss the vioce of non-violence to be inconsequential. It holds its importance in juxa position to the present world of violence, where all living things live constantly under the threat of annjbilation. It is when we seek an alternative that we find solace in non-violence.
Science has invested innumarable power in man's hands and he
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