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Vol. XXIII, No. 4
181 Is man becoming a beast ? We say that child is God's innocence, but sacrifice the same innocent creation of God this way, isn't this a kind of madness ? Mankind needs to be awakened against it."
In the 20th century, a new type of violence has come into being. Killing of female foetuses. For this he tries to educate the motherhood of its duties, asking, whether springs of mother's love have gone dry ? How else to describe the killing of a healthy would be female child ?, he asks, "isn't this the worst kind of cruel violence ? Human being is no longer sensitive to the life, that is why violence is spreading in the very vitals of the society. In olden times different natural herbs and spices were used as cosmetic aids, but today the cosmetic preparations are made out of blood and flesh of living animals. The cruelty exercised in the process is gruesome. No spiritual person will agree to its desirability, killing for saving life could have some justification, however flimsy and unacceptable, but killing merely for temporary vanity is the height of cruelty and dogradation of human soul. But Gurudev Tulsi neither loses heart for his mission nor gets discouraged through this all-pervading violence and terror. "Whole world cannot turn non-violent”, says he, so we need not get disappointed and step back, we have to go on, with the efforts that world should not get overridden with violence and thus become uncontrollable”. Right now violence is having an upper band. To uplift mankind we have to reverse the trend or the day is not far off when our centres of culture, i.e., temples, maths, ashrams, all are going to be under attack of violence.” To counter this problem of all pervading violence, he advises scientists to find out, in which part of the human brain does the violence as a thought process originate and what starts it pathologicaly. Because after identifying the origin can the original sources be controlled appropriately.
All scriptures of the world, generally. contain a touching account of the dire results of cruelty, violence : but Gurudev Tulsi, being a modern mind, does not only connect violence with hell itself, but also to awaken the man's inner urge, he provides a psychological path & (i) A violent person does not only harm other person, but harms
his own inner and higher self also-degrades his own self. ii) We may and may not become the source of hapiness and com
fort for some body, but atleast let us not become the source of pain and unhappiness for any body. If we cannot help in removing pain, we can, at least refrain from inflicting pain.
Trying to stir the inper soul of terrorrists who inflict mindless and useless bloodshed on innocents, he says, if you have to massacre
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