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From this time forth till the Independence of the nation, 3 major influences could be felt throughout the land: British Evangelicalism, Italian and German Fascism, and Russian Communism. While folk like Gandhi and Tagore were influenced along British Evangelicalism, Golwalkar and Hedgewar (RSS) were influenced by Fascism, and Bhagat Singh was influenced by Communism (whereas these influences had a unique blend with the Indian socio-historical experience). The non-violent and peaceable protest methods namely Gandhi upheld had an immense clash ashore the soul of the nation. Certainly, as Bertrand Russell eminent (and his statement hangs emblazoned in Mahatma Gandhi's family in Ahmedabad), "It is doubtful that the means of Mahatma Gandhi would have succeeded besides that he was praying to the soul of a [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]ized folk." One wonders if Gandhi's methods would have had whichever success in Hitler's Germany or in the Ottoman Empire. In addition, we do understand the magnitude of a military to safeguard the nation.
However, it is the quality of the religious morale that fosters a sense of humaneness even every now and then of war. It teaches one the principle of treating ones border as one would have treated ego. "Love your neighbour as yourself," said Christ and, in addition, "whatever you absence men to do to you, do also to them" �C the Golden Rule of ethics. The Divine Spirit of Grace works within the person heart against the animal instincts of unrestrained passion for power and happiness. One tin either succumb to the pedestal forces and enter a world of meaningless void and striving with the wind, or submit to Divine Grace and become a beloved of God, Devampriya (a heading of Ashoka). Leaders tin either destroy or create the nation. History tells us who built and who destroyed. Let us defiance to follow the fact!
Among those who did talk of a religious conscience but perpetrated crimes against humanity, their violence was sanctioned by their religious authority, sectarian view of humanity (that dehumanized other people teams), quest for political supremacy, racism, and/or a history of hatred, retaliate, and anger.
Gandhi with Rabindranath Tagore, 1940 (Wikipedia)In the Indian taint, sadly, as Romila Thapar noted,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "the ideology of dhamma died with the death of the dictator [in 231 BC]" [Keay, 99]. After Ashoka, there was nobody like Ashoka. The modern time was a period of petty kingdoms warring against each additional,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], of numerous social evils like child matrimony, sati, casteism, temple prostitution, petticoat infanticide, etc. The East India Company that came into India did put an end to the petty realm wars by assuming control over most of the land, although, it didn't mediate with the local customs. It was missionaries like William Carey and reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy who first began to take a stand against the social crimes approved by religion and community. Consequently,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the British ministry levied a forbid over several of these.
"Herein lies the greatness of Ashoka," writes R.K. Mookerji, "�� at least not victorious monarch in the history of the earth is understood apt have ever given expression to anything like it" [Ibid]. The conversion was aggregate and it unleashed a infrequent period in the history of India known as the Golden Age of Indian history.
Kalinga and Maurya Empire ahead invasion of Ashoka (Wiki)Though seemingly deriving several principles of statecraft from Kautilya's Arthasastra, Akbar resorted to the ideology of dhamma as derived from Buddhism to make the foundation of his rule. Ashoka's remorse had a ready remedy in the already existing Buddhist dhamma, with which he did have contacts from his previous linger at Avanti and his marriage to Devi (Vidisha-mahadevi), a Buddhist. The remorse was decisive, but even more momentous was the availability of the religion of non-violence in the fashion of Buddhism, and Buddhist chroniclers garbage no efforts attempting to depict the pre-Buddhist Ashoka as a monstrously demonic governor, whose evil mind had to bring an end to ... Kalinga to experience the certain alteration. It is recorded that some 100,000 people were slain and 150,000 deported during the Kalinga War. The occupied Kalingans were treated in agreement to the principles of Arthasastra: "having procured new territory the conqueror shall substitute his virtues for the enemy's vices and where the enemy was good, he shall be double as good. He shall emulate policies that are nice and salutary by performing according to his dharma and by granting favours and exemptions, giving awards and bestowing honours." [Keay, 92]
World-Wars and World-Views
In nigh 260 BC, King Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire intruded the Republic of Kalinga, now in modern daytime Orissa,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], engaging in a bloody battle that within a short period of time reasoned such heavy destruction that it appalled the chronicles of time. It was the first and the only war that Ashoka is said to have fought, retinue which he encountered a mysterious change of heart and gave up violence. The conquest did make Ashoka an perfect monarch over a large portion of the Indian sub-continent; the change of heart, however, stripped him of any desire for further military conquests. The massive detriment of life and suffering caused by this war measured heavily on the mind of the King and plunged him into deep remorse. On the 13th of his 14 Major Rock Edicts, he inscribes:
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The presence of a non-violent religious conscience was strongly felt throughout the Golden reign of Ashoka. It's deficiency was horrifically sensed in the modern fascist regimes rooted in the dehumanizing roots of Darwinism. Darwinism accomplished the decrement of man to a mere biological creature. Spirituality was stripped of any significance. Two powerful ideologies, viz. Fascism and communism, that plunged the world into horrific crimes opposition humanity ensued from its principles. These philosophies stood strongly opposed against virtues of the religious conscience. In his book The Antichrist, Nietzsche blatantly expressed the plausible political ethics of Darwinian ideology, minds that went into shaping the fascist regimes of the 1930s. Not surprisingly, influenced by the Darwinian principles of natural culling, struggle for subsistence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and survival of the fittest, his doctrine of will to power stood ferociously contrary to the virtues of love and compassion. He wrote:
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)What is nice?�CWhatever augments the feeling of power, the ambition to power, power itself, in man.What is malign?�CWhatever springs from weakness.What is pleasure?�CThe feeling that power increases�Cthat resistance is overcome.Not contentment, yet extra power; no truce at any price, merely battle; no virtue, but efficiency (morality in the Renaissance sense, virtue,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], virtue free of moral mordant).The feeble and the botched shall perish: premier principle of our liberalness. And 1 should assist them to it.What is extra harmful than any vice?�CPractical compassion for the botched and the weak��
I shriek an animal, a category, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers, what is injurious to it. A history of the "higher feelings," the "ideals of humanity"�Cand it is likely that I'll must jot it�Cwould nearly annotate why man is so degenerate. Life itself appears to me as an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power: whenever the will to power fails there is calamity. My disagreement is that all the highest values of humanity have been emptied of this will�Cthat the values of decadence, of nihilism, now prevail under the holiest names��
Pity stands in opposition to all the tonic enthusiasms that augment the stamina of the feeling of aliveness: it is a depressant. A man loses power when he pities. Through compassion that drain upon strength which anguish goes is multiplied a thousandfold��.
Usta?e guard in a mass grave at Jasenovac concentration camp (Wikipedia)Shortly afterward manuscript this book, Nietzsche underwent nervous collapse and ended in an refuge where he presently died. But, his megalomaniac philosophy became the fuel of Fascism and Nazism. Both Mussolini and Hitler were influenced by Nietzsche's vision of the Superman, the Overman (in Thus Spake Zarathustra), which they beyond interpreted forward their socio-historical experiences. The fascist ideas did scatter to as far as Japan and the centenary saw one of the most brutal and maniacal histories of entire time plunging the world into a universal Kalinga of World War II. The difference: "Supermen" didn't have the manner of apology this time. They both committed suicide or were executed by those that defeated them and saved the world from self-destruction. There are examples of crimes against humanity that send a shiver according our backbone. The concentration camps of Hitler and the Nanking slaughter to advert 2. Though opposed to fascism, Communism too viewed man with the anti-spiritual spectacles of natura that dehumanized the individual, but with a Hegelian tint to its philosophy of history. Pity was substituted with brutality, where the enemy was not equitable devastated, but his humanhood was stripped off. Man, in the old of technology, with perfected weapons, was back to barbarianism. The religious conscience was annihilated.
This inscription of dhamma has been engraved so that any sons or great-grandsons that I may have should not meditation of gaining fashionable conquests, and in whatever victories they may acquisition should be satisfied with patience and light discipline. They should only think conquest by dhamma to be a true conquest, and joy in dhamma should be their whole delight, for this is of value in both this world and the next. [as quoted by John Keay,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], India: A History, 92-93]
On conquering Kalinga the Beloved of the Gods felt remorse,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for, when an independent nation is conquered, the slaughter, death and deportation of the people is exceedingly grievous to the Beloved of the Gods and weighs heavily on his mind�� Even those who are lucky to have fled, and whose love is undiminished, suffer from the misfortunes of their friends, acquaintances, colleagues and relatives��
? Domenic Marbaniang, 2010

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