Wave of Bliss

Author(s): N P Jain
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Centre

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THE WAVE OF BLISS
changes. Indeed there is nothing in the world so powerful as non-violence".
The message of Lord Mahavir has gone home with the devout International followers: “All of our acts of goodness, all of our moral practices to give up greed and be more humane are meaningless and useless unless we have non-violence and reverence for all living beings in our thoughts, in our hearts and actions”. “I cannot take what I cannot give back. No one can give back life. So no one should take it”.
The famous American Scientist Carl Sagan observed in an interview published in the Time Magazine on October 20, 1980:
"There is no right to life in any society or. earth today, nor has there been at any former time with a few rare exceptions such as among the JAINS of India. We raise farm animals for slaughter, destroy forests, pollute rivers and lakes until no fish can live there, hunt deer and elk for sport ..."
The message of non-violence has been taken in the comprehensive backdrop of world-wide violence, which threatens to blow up humanity and to destroy all fruits of civilisation in terms of values of life, and the concepts of compassion, pity, love and sympathy.
There is intense regret and unhappiness at the acceleration of violence in India — the land of peace and nonviolence. Kamla writes: “I worry about you everytime. I hear news of violence in India. Such a beautiful land with so much to teach us".
Talking about guns and violence in USA, Quaker Elizabeth from New York found it disgusting that Ronald
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