In either case violence is thought necessary to achieve the intended results. Besides, the general law and order situation in big cities has deteriorated to a point where people are left with no feeling of security whatsoever. Fear and insecurity breed greater violence. The only way to arrest this increasing trend of crime and violence is giving proper training in non-violence. Even if there is one duly trained non-violent person for every one hundred trained soldiers, a new miracle can be performed and a new order created.
Training is prerequisite for developing a non-violent personality.
We have to recognize the fact that today negative ideas hold sway in life and positive ideas are at a discount. Violence, robbery, exploitation are all negative and the training being contemplated will therefore aim at replacing them by positive ideas. Let me here suggest just one method of doing it. It implies the absence of both memory and imagination, for both the past and the future are fetters of the mind. Attaining such a perfectly placid state of mind is an art that one learns through long and constant practice.