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5. Not to take wine or meat, 6. Even in defensive wars, not to kill the civilians of enemy side. 7. To curb the feeling of superiority and not to usurp any body's
right. 8. Not to be immoral in anyway.
At the same time he laid certain do's to establish the desired Non-violent society. 1. To reorganize the present system of education. This system is
developing reason and logic but not the character. 2. To give importance to good and giving people and not to bad
and grabbers-Thereby even the "haves" class of the society will
be led to respect the value of basic goodness. 3. To curb the desires and wants to the minimum In present
social set up, there are unlimited riches and resources on the one hand and dire, want and hunger on the other hand. This creates enemity and friction and jealousy and consequsnt violence or violent state of mind.
To change all this Gorudev Tulsi suggests that there should be a related change between the person, economics and society, then only can a healthy society be framed and a solution found to all or most of the problems Non-Violence in Thought
Lord Mahavir has considered intellectual and mental violence worse than physical violence, because if a person kills a person hc kills an individual but when a person kills an idea, he kills hundreds, even thousands indirectly.
He clucidates that to critisize somo body wrongly to twist some body's thinking, to make false allegatsons, to character assassinate some body out of jealousy, and/or to give prominance to one's own thoughts or convictions only is intellectual violence. That is why non-violence never exists or be practised along with other negative emotion side by side. It is not possible. The reason for its expansion is because intellectual violence is not obvious, whereas the physical violence is.
Lord Mahavir tried to establish non-violence through Anekant (non-absolutism) because, while understanding self is essential, so is understanding others, Because knowing complete truth is not possible through that. Gurudev gave an example of this from an incident from his own life, Sometime around year 1962, an Anuvrat
minar was held and a reputed lawyer of the place was called to participate in it. He presented certain queries and doubts about it,
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