TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

An individual is always governed by his thinking. That is why, if we have to make a non-violent world for a peaceful society, there is only one way, and that is by using educative methods to convert people’s thinking from violence to non-violence, and to enable them to seek the solution to matters of controversy through peaceful means. They must learn to understand the value of tolerance and avoidance as opposed to intolerance and confrontation. It is from such intellectual awareness alone that a non-violent world and a peaceful society can be constructed. o Higher Purpose It is in terms of the unique conceptual quality of man that we can conceive of what his higher purpose in life should be. It can only be one which does not result from the pressures of desire or of immediate exigencies. It must emanate from his own urge to worship God. There is only one way of exploiting the non-violent method for the reform of a society–and that is, to bring about a change in the thinking of the individual, the basic unit of society.