Knowledge Sheet by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Bring Wisdom To The World 

 Violence cannot be stopped by violence. It has to be stopped by wisdom. Only wisdom can stop violence.

 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and the whole world will become blind and toothless (great laughter)." There is no end if people say, "I am violent because that person was violent", then it goes on and on and on, endlessly. Somewhere, we should stop – that is what wisdom can do, that is what we can do. We can contribute in this manner.

 In India, we did this in the states of Bihar and Jharkhand, which always used to have bloodshed. Since our volunteers were active there, more than one thousand guerrilla warriors (these people who were having guerrilla wars, the Naxalites) laid down their arms.

 I gave a call to them – From Bullet to Ballot. So, they heard that voice, they dropped the bullets and they came and participated in the election process; otherwise, they would never let the elections happen. And now, for the last 5–6 years, there is no violence there. Recently, there was an election and it happened so peacefully.

 When I am saying this, I am saying it out of our practical experience in many parts of the world. We have experienced that violence cannot quell violence, only wisdom can stop violence.

 Each one of you here is a pillar of wisdom, and we need more of these torchbearers of wisdom in the world today. The world is sinking into depression. The biggest killer in the coming decade in the world will be depression. And again, to bring people out of depression, only wisdom can help.

 And you all have to pat yourselves on the back because you have come together, you have started, you have the commitment to bring wisdom to the world.

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