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AHIMSA CULTURE FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL
any such suicidal disaster rests squarely on the shoulders of man as it is he who has allowed things to drift to the extent that he is now facing extinction. He is now self-aware. He has come of age. He knows that man is born for joy and happiness, and sees, nay, experiences that he is everywhere in misery of his own making. He must now consciously, deliberately and with an adamantive will summon the total forces of love and cooperation, of knowedge and understanding to defeat all anti-life and anti-love forces. It is no longer enough to allow the forces of love and life and light to operate by themselves, as dumb and silent natural forces. The urges of evolution are already there but now it is time that man participates in the evolution towards higher and nobler levels of conscious existence, of creative peace, ascending symphonic harmony and universal joy and happiness of all, which was the dream as well as the ideal of Gandhi. Ahimsa-Culture in this context would mean not the passive, dorment, and occasional expression of the great and noble and self-denying emotion of love, but that cultivated and well-nourished culture in which every activity of the physical, vital, intellectual, aesthetic; moral and spiritual energy of human being is informed and instinct with love and overflows to reach through identification every being
on earth.
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I know that 'Ahimsā-Culture' is a rare expression, if not a new one. But in view of the critical and dangerous phase of evolution through which man is passing, it needs to be made not only current but also popular. Today, violence overt or covert, open or secret, on all levels, individuals, social group, national, and international is obviously playing havoc and embittering all human relations. Self in a narrow and
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