(GIST OF YOJANA)  Why violence as a contemporary means to settle issues should be avoided in our personal and social life? [OCTOBER-2019]


(GIST OF YOJANA)  Why violence as a contemporary means to settle issues should be avoided in our

personal and social life? [OCTOBER-2019]

Why violence as a contemporary means to settle issues should be avoided in our personal and social life?

  • He observes that violence does not accept the ‘essential dignity and worth of the individual.
  • The violence recognizes no boundaries and finally becomes self justificatory in itself. The reason is that violence claims to possess the truth about right and wrong and on this basis, it also decides who should be punished and who spared.

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  • When violence becomes habitual and institutionalized, it becomes a general means/method to settle the issue of any kind of conflicts in society'. He also suggested that in the long run violence docs more harm than good as it produces a vicious and endless chain in which an individual or society get trapped.
  • Thus, he prescribes non-violence as a way of our daily individual life and invites us to test it in our life world. To test one’s non-violence, he argued, one must learn to dare danger and death, mortify the flesh and acquire the capacity to endure ail manners of hardships. Thus, his non-violence is not only a matter of philosophy or intellectual inquiry but it calls for dynamic action at the individual level as well.

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