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People understand that their problems are rooted in consumerism. It is not out of place to recollect here that Tolstoy was the first who yet in the XIXth century forsaw the maladities of industrial and post industries for India. But they were mis-understood by many of their contemporaries.
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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my acknowledgement to Jain Vishva Bharati Institute for hospitality, accomodation and help in my research. My deepest thanks to Vice-chancellor Bhandari, public relation officer Miss Veena Jain, professors and lecturers: Dr. B. R. Dugar, Dr. A. K. Jain, Mr, Anil Dutta Mishra, Dr. J. P. N. Mishra and Dr. J. R. Bhattacharyya. I am extremly grateful to Mr. Shankar Lal Mehta for providing me with books on preksha-meditation and Dr. P. Solanki for consulting me on the bookstock of the library.
I was fortunate to received guidance from monk Dulahrajji and seat at his feet.
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* I am planning to make use of the results achieved during my scholars, research at Jain Vishva Bharati Institute in the following way:
i. To write a chapter "Tolstoy aud Gandhi on non-violence" for a student's textbook "Introduction to Russian philosophy".
ii. to publish an article in "Science and Religion" magazine "Jainism-Religion of the 21 century".
iii to incorporate the conclusions in series of lectures "Typology of cultures" I am delivering at Russian state univertity for Humanities and series of lectures "East meets West".
iv. make reports about my stay in Jain Vishva Bharati Institute at the department of History of Cultures, department of Russian philosophy, at moscow state university, at the seminar of "Nonviolence ethics" Institute of philosophy.
1. We may suppose that because of the climate meat is the main food, so hunting and fishing were chief occupation, and killing animals was not considered violence.
2. Tolstoy mentions Duckobors, who refused to do military service. Possibly Gandhi was inspired by their technique.
3. See Gandhi "Towards new education" (Ahmedabad, 1980) and also a newly published book by Australian scholar "Gandhi Ashrams", 1994.
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