Snippets: Ahimsa Conversation # 55 Sundarshan Iyengar
Channel: Ahimsa Conversations
Date: 2021-03-19

Valour that is anchored in a combination of physical and moral strength nurtures nonviolence by giving people the strength to bear hardship. Gandhian scholar, teacher and activist Sudarshan Iyengar explains how valour that consists only of physical and material prowess is likely to lead to violence.  Drawing on his experiences as an activist in the Tarun Shanti Sena (Youth Peace Army) and various other movements, Sudarshan is confident that nonviolence is the essential characteristic of human beings. Yes, there is manifest and sub-surface violence but it can never undermine the deeper impulse of nonviolence. Sudarshan reflects on the dynamic between nonviolence as the supreme dharma, as said in the Mahabharat, and the  fight for justice. 
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