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Besides there are some objective world which causes violence in different context. These are imbalanced social, political, economic and educational systems. This demands a through change.
Acharya Mahaprajna beleives in the allround training in nonviolence. He opines that we can develop some principles for the change of social system. His principles of the change are as follow.
1. Training for non-infatnation with the body and material
objects 2. Training for bearlessness and for fear anything to do or
trading in armaments. 3. Training for friendliness and for freedom from the spirit of
revenge. 4. Training for the spirit of forgiveness. 5. Training for politeness for non-egotism protest and for non
cooperation with injustice. 6. Training for compassion. 7. Training for communal harmony and for toleration of diffe.
rent ideologies. 8. Training for relative thioking. 9. Training for interdependence. 10. Training for positive approach. 11. Training for the development of the spirit of giving away. 12. Training in non-accumulation. 13. Training in decentralized economic organisation. 14. Training for integrity in the earning of money. 15. Training for evolution of the spirit of equal distribution, 16. Training in regulating immediate carving for consumption
and in limiting self-gratification. etc. To sup up the above changes in individual are concerned with the removal of his mental tension, idcological differences, emotional imbalance and the imbalance of harmoncs. Similarly the change of social systems have importance in improving the non-violent social order.
May this our modest endeavour to impart training in nonviolence provide a new direction. And thus may we advance on the path of establishing the value of non-violence. This is the ideal which Acharya Shri Mahaprajna envisages.
-Parameshwar Solanki
Editor Tulsi Prajna Ladoun--341306
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