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of violence, which of the seeds sprouts would depend upon the factor present whether it is favourable to the growth of non-violence or violence. The principle of training in non-violence is to let the seeds of violence be dormant and to activate the seeds of nonviolence. What is required is that the seeds of non-violence be sown and watered.
Origin of the Violence :
ness.
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From the very begining a child is conditioned by violence with in the family. He is naturally attracted by the prevailing acquesitiveHe sees for himself that money rules every thing and that people fight among them selves for money. It is deeply embedded in his sub-concious that one must possess money at all costs. finds that a simple request for it fitches him no peny, but threats and a show of bellicosity do. So it is firmly impressed upon his mind that anger is indispensable. He meets with factors of violence in the family, also in the social environment. Similarly, study of history teaches the student 'Might is Right'. Without power you remain a non-entity. A student does not know in what direction he should
utilize his energy.
Actually violence originates in the field of urges and passions. Later it establishes itself in the thought and then enters the sphere of conduct. Our instincts choose a medium to manifest themselves. Space, time and circumstance are the factors. If we examine closely, we shall find that a particular urge does not arise in the morning, it is aroused only in the evening. What does not arise at night is aroured in day-time. Each instict is awakened in its own time. It is on this basis that the doctrine of the biological clock sets forth the time for performing particular activities. This constitutes the factor of time.
The relationship of one individual with another constitute society and the inner world of the individual constitutes his individuality, society is an extension thereof. So the individual with society as its experimental ground is the basis of violence. The starting point of training in non-violence is, therefore, a change of heart, i.e. a transformation of the brain cells. This change is matteroriented, not directed towards violence. We are difinately of the view, says Acharya Mahaprajna, that apart from the question of nonpossessiveness, there can not exist the problem of violence at all. Training in non-violence is direct training for the change of mental world, though it is indirectly related with the change of socio-economic political system.
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