2015.0203- Violence/Non-Violence; Defending the weak is an important form of selfless service, and it is part of
karma yoga, or the yoga of action. Use of force, when necessary for this purpose, is completely justified as an indispensable instrument for the securing the desired objective. But any fighting undertaken to defend the weak must be without any selfish motives or hatred if it is to have unalloyed spiritual importance. It resembles, for example, a case of a man who defends a woman being attached by another man for vile purposes- thus saving the woman`s honour and life, and punishing the attacher and making him repent.
Or, suppose, an aggressive nation invades a weaker nation for selfish purposes; and another nation, inspired sole by the noble desire of saving the weak nation, resists this aggressiveubvasuib by armed force. Fighting in defence of the wak nation can be called non-violence. Non-violence pure and simple, however, is base on Divine love. Here one sees all as one`s own Self and as such is beyond both friendship and enmity. Never under any circumstances does a single thought of violence enter one`s mind- Mehar Baba. This content appeared in a newspaper called DNA and the same is reproduced for the information of the members of "sundercircle" for public good. Thanks. Kind Regards. Sunder T
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