________________ P2 વજ alcohilo SPEAKER LOK SABHA INDIA. 08 THE VOWS ARE VERY ESS I have pas the vows preso 528 and they a very essential to * Ibile and spiritual he people. The diff unfortunately, has been not the want of a proper philosophy of life, but the want of praca tice of our ancient philosophy. From what I have seen all these years in all walks of HON'BLE SHRIG. V. MAVALANKAR life, I feel the necessity of practice of the principles, which we always have on our lips. Non-violence has to be a creed of the life of everyone of us. It is difficult to make it a creed. It requires the acquisition of a good number of qualities. Unless a man shreds his fear-complex, speaks truth and looks upon others the same way in which he looks upon himself, it is not possible for him to practise non-violence; and again, mere physical non-violence is not enough. There must be nonviolence in thoughts as well as in words and deeds. It is only when we begin to practise on a large scale nonviolence of this type that we shall be able to realise full democracy. Mere absence of the foreigner or a machinery for election does not give us democracy in the real sense of the term. In other words, it is necessary to spiritualise our individual as well as national life. (His letter No. D. 1600 54 of the 25th August, 1954.) seks Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
