10-10-2004, 08:47 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->am certainly no apologist for the appeasement aspect of Gandhiji, but his insistence on ahimsa stems possibly from a misundertanding of the reverence for life that the Dharmiks have had since time immemorial<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No it was because he was a follower of Jesus Christ, and he called Christ's masochistic view as ahimsa, which is more applicable as "non-maliciousness"
after all, what is wrong with some necessary violence from the Hindu view. The soul never dies, therefore death of the physical body is just a temporary thing. So for Hindu's/Jains to have such an attachment to the physical body ("ahimsa") shows a lack of understanding of the original intent.
That intent being not being unnecessarily violent, as opposed to not being violent at all.
No it was because he was a follower of Jesus Christ, and he called Christ's masochistic view as ahimsa, which is more applicable as "non-maliciousness"
after all, what is wrong with some necessary violence from the Hindu view. The soul never dies, therefore death of the physical body is just a temporary thing. So for Hindu's/Jains to have such an attachment to the physical body ("ahimsa") shows a lack of understanding of the original intent.
That intent being not being unnecessarily violent, as opposed to not being violent at all.