Sadhu Vaswani has published an excellent article in TOI titled as – “Why wait for passing of laws to do right?”. The article explains how to heal yourself:

Hurt no one! Learn to practise ahimsa to yourself first. There are many cells in your body. Every bad thought, every vicious desire harms the cells in you. You are their guardian, so keep away from bad thoughts. Cultivate ekagrata or one-pointedness, the power of speech and the power of silence. Speak to the point. Learn to sit in silence and adore silence. The silent ones reflect divine action in the third stage. In the first stage are great men or heroes of history, in the second stage are sages and in the third stage are the silent ones.

The avoidance of violence

You should not harm your self or do no harm to others. Every cell in your body can hurt you with bad thoughts. Gandhi promoted the principle of ahimsa very successfully by applying it to all spheres of life, particularly to politics. The load Krishna are particularly keen on ahimsa. From Bhagavad-gita As It Is Chapter 10 Verses 4-5:

Ahimsa, nonviolence, means that one should not do anything which will put others into misery or confusion. Material activities that are promised by so many politicians, sociologists, philanthropists, etc., do not produce very good results because the politicians and philanthropists have no transcendental vision; they do not know what is actually beneficial for human society. Ahiḿsā means that people should be trained in such a way that the full utilization of the human body can be achieved. The human body is meant for spiritual realization, so any movement or any commissions which do not further that end commit violence on the human body. That which furthers the future spiritual happiness of the people in general is called nonviolence.

However, some of use thing that nonviolence mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others into distress. From Bhagavad-gita Chapter 13 Verses 8-12:

People in general are trapped by ignorance in the material concept of life, and they perpetually suffer material pains. So unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is nonviolence.

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