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a coward and in fact supporting violence and not being nonviolent."
The following comment of bis on the subject also makes it all very clear and concrete. "A man lives in and is a part of the society, so he has a duty towards its security and ensuring its survival and he cannot shut his eyes from his duty towards it and where war is to be faced, it should be faced bravely, running away from it is not nonviolence. It is simple and plain cowardice. Though at the same time destruction in war will be violence and cannot be termed nonviolence. But during wars also, field of non-violence can be deve. loped and worked by :
(i) not becoming an aggressor, (ii) not killing an innocent, (iii) not be cruel to invalids, (iv) not to attack hospitals, religious places and educational
institutions. (v) not to bombard population areas.
In regard to the questin, whether non-violence could be a solution to war, he thinks that war problem can be solved and settled by non-violence and friendship because arms can never settle any problem, nor can they stop war, If one side gets weaker, it paves the ground for another war in future. But one thing that is forgotten in the process is that in ultimate analysis, after all the wars, settlement is always done by negotiations-So why not negotiate at the start. To resist attack and war through non-violence, Gurudev Tulsi says, three factors must be present :
(i) There must be total absence of fear of death and terror, (ii) There must be discipline and love and complete trust in human
oneness and (iii) There should be moral strength to never forgo to resist the
injustice under any circumstances,
War may be incvitable in certain circumstances; still for war bis suggestions were that even if victory in the war be definite, the war itself is not desirable, simply for the reason that even after the victory, there is no gaurantee that the problem underlying the war would be solved. Non-violence and World Peace
According to Gurudev Tulsi, peace is that state of happiness, which gives a sense of well-beiog of mind, holiness, euphoria to soul, a certain lightness. Today the whole of the world is in search of peace, but the proliferation of atomic weapons has put the very
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