Swami Vivekananda: The Architect of Modern India and its Youth
Stop Violence
“Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is that is called Ahimsa, non-injury. There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation”.
Swami Vivekananda further elaborated his preaching on non-violence by telling that the test of ahimsa is absence of jealousy. ‘Any man may do a good deed or make a good gift on the spur of the moment, or under the pressure of some superstition or priest craft; but the real lover of mankind is he who is jealous of none. The so-called great men of the world may all be seen to become jealous of each other for a small name, for a little fame, and for a few bits of gold. So long as this jealousy exists in a heart, it is far away from the perfection of Ahimsa’.