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AHIMSA CULTURE FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL
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of the above type, man hungers after love, harmony, and friendliness in society as the gateway to joy and happiness and which fulfil the urge for happiness.
If we cast even a casual and cursory glance and survey the prehistory, protohistory and history of mankind for the past several millenia, we shall find that it is through long periods of peace, through loving friendliness and cooperation, that man has been able to build the present great civilization, attain the high levels of culture in various parts of the world, and develop extraordinary skills in works and highly efficient organisation. This achievement is observable both in individual advance and development as well as corporate existence and civic living. A few thousand years ago, might be ten or fifteen or fifty thousand according to different speculative historians, were cave dwellers, cannibals, headhunters, petty tribals, scattered over in various localities and always in desperate search of food and shelter. And today we are billions settled in huts and hamlets and heavenly mansions all over the many continents, a few of us flying like birds with supersonic speads, communicating with each other as if we are next door neighbours though we are speaking a thousand languages not known to each other. We are sharing however inequitably our goods and commodities skills and crafts, our sciences and technologies. But an achievement higher than all these is the serious attempt to foige links and build bridges among peoples of different religions and races in order to integrate the whole of humanity into a single Family of man 'Vishwa Kutumba', the dream and insight of the ancient Vadic ķishis of India. At
the top of all these achievements is the sincere and heartfelt attempt to share the cares and anxieties, the fears
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