Dharma (Himsa Tathaiva Cha)-1. Swami Chinmayananda.

1.

Personally, I am no advocate of violence.

But violence, too, has its rightful place in life, life does not preclude death.

The average Indian has been moulded into a particular national mentality of quixotic tolerance.

His attitude is shaped into its distinct pattern by the ideologies and moralities preached in our national literature.

And no single work in our classics has gained such a wide influence on our people as the Bhagawad Gita :-

 and in, this century, no other single message had such a universal appeal to our countrymen as the single line, "Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah" -- "Non - Violence is the greatest Dharma."



This line in its over – emphasis, has sapped both initiative and energy in our millions, and, instead of making us all irresistible moral giants, we have been reduced to poltroons and cowards.

And banking on this cowardly resignation of the majority, a handful of fanatics have been perpetrating crimes which even the most barbarous cave dwellers would have avenged.

To clothe our weaknesses, we attribute to them glorious names and purposefully persuade ourselves to believe that they are brilliant ideologists !

Chinmaya Mission
To be continued ..