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(vii) There will be no discrimination on account of caste, colour,
creed or sex. All will be equal.
Gurudev Tulsi's oldest message in his "Ashant Vishwa Ko Shanti Ka Sandesb" (Peace Message to the Peaceless world), which contains thirteen points after reading which Mahatma Gandhi bad said that what a happy thing it would have been, if the whole world follows the path shown by this great man. A Korean visiting professor, on hearing Gurudev Tulsi's message of peace and Ahimsa (nonviolence) and Anuvrat had said regretfully that they had no body there to give such a message. Had there been one, the world would not have passed through the devastations of the two world wars. Disarmament
Whole of the world is in dread of the proliferation of the armament, especially the atomic ones and the voice to ban it is gathering momentum. Lord Mahavir had realized this and raised his voice against it 2500 years ago. He had said that what is needed is to cure the inclination of the man to manu acture arms. Gurudev Tulsi says that the arms in themselves are not so dangerous, as is the arms consciousness of the man himself. The arms concious man is uncontrollable and becomes cruel and discriminates between man and man on one ground or the other. Also disarmament cannot be achieved by just cutting down on some missiles.
Even for balancing of power between nations, he does not approve of arms manufacture, because it not only means wasteful expenditure, but can also be a cause of misuse, if going into wrong hands. Nearly thirty-three years earlier his observation about this country was that let India be poor in missiles and bombs, as it is better that way and be free instead of having them and be in dread of consequences of having them and that our biggest asset was Ahimsa and till that was with us, we were safe, our security would be jeopordised only when our vital asset of Ahimsa would be lost.
His depth of feeling for a conflictless world is evident from his expression that the day atomic weapons will be banned completely, will be the day, when cruelty and tyranny of violence would be buried and that will be a day of achievement for the mankind, the day of fulfilment of his dream of a violence-free non-violent world. Humanity can survive only with a sense of tolerance and co-operation towards and with each other. . Non-violent Experiments :
"I do not have a blind faith in non-violence. This is a ray of light for me, with whicb I have tried to light my way of life, and I
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