Ideology of Peace
A JOURNEY TOWARDS PEACE
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not at the cost of the family and society. In daily
existence, you may lead your life by maintaining
the social structure and tradition and not by
destroying them. You have the freedom to lead
your own life, but by caring in the process for the
rest of your society and not by neglecting it.
Resources may be utilized for the benefit of
humanity, but not for purely exploitative purposes.
You are free to use peaceful methods, but you are
not entitled to use violent methods. You can make
use of nature, but only by maintaining its balance:
the equilibrium of nature must never be upset. You
have the freedom to use nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes, but not to manufacture destructive
weapons. You are at liberty to nurture feelings of
love and compassion, but not to give way to hatred
and prejudice. You are free to fulfill your physical
desires, but not by killing your soul, spiritually. In
short, you have the freedom to enjoy life by sharing
with others, but certainly not by eliminating them.
In the present world the root cause of most of our
problems is traceable to our deviation from the
model of nature. Nature around us serves as the
best model for us to follow. All the dilemmas we
