I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.
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If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.Satish Kumar
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
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These are elderly people and the savings really means a lot to them. They are very happy and relieved that they can save money.
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We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
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That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
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So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
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