Ideology of Peace
THE WAYS AND MEANS OF PEACE
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THE SYSTEM OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
Violence is, to put it differently, laying the blame for
one’s own mistakes at the door of another. But this
world is based on the principle of cause and effect,
and when anyone suffers from some affliction, he
should try to find the cause within himself, rather
than attempt to find it elsewhere. As you sow, so
shall you reap.
When this reality of life takes root in the mind of a
human being, he will never hold anyone else
responsible for his own afflictions, and take to
violence against them. No, indeed, he will analyse
his own actions objectively to discover his own
shortcomings and rectify his mistakes in order that
he may be saved from being the victim of
unnecessary suffering.
Engaging in subversive activities against others,
using one’s own woes as a pretext, is like a patient
holding his neighbour responsible for his illness
and starting a fight with him. In a city where the
traffic has to keep to the right, anyone who thinks
