A-Himsa is the pure thought of India, non-violence. A-Himsa is really inspired by universal love. Himsa means to want to kill, to want to harm. A-Himsa is therefore, the renunciation of all intention of death or harm caused by violence.
A-Himsa is the opposite of egotism. A-Himsa is absolute altruism and love. A-Himsa is upright action.
Mahatma Ghandi made of A-Himsa the staff of his political doctrine. Ghandi defined the manifestation of A-Himsa in this manner:
“Non-violence does not consist of renouncing all real struggle against evil. Non-violence, as I conceive it, establishes a more active campaign against evil than the law of the Talion, whose nature itself results in the development of perversity. I raise before the immoral, a mental opposition, and consequently, a moral one. I try to whet the tyrant’s sword, not by clashing it against a better sharpened steel, but by disappointing his hopes by not offering any physical resistance. He will find in me a resistance of the soul which will escape his assault. This resistance will first of all blind him and will immediately force him to surrender. And the act of surrendering will not humiliate the aggressor but will dignify him…”
There is not a more powerful weapon than a well directed mind!
The ego is the one that disunites, betrays and establishes anarchy within poor suffering humanity. Egoism, treason and the lack of brotherhood has divided humanity.
The ‘I’’ was neither created by God nor by the Spirit nor by Matter. The ‘I’ was created by our own mind and will cease to exist when we have comprehended it totally in all the levels of the mind. It is only through upright action, upright meditation, upright will, upright means of earning a living, upright effort and upright memory that we can dissolve the ‘I’. It is urgent to comprehend in depth all of this if we really want the Revolution of the Dialectic.
The personality should not be confused with the ‘I’. Really, the personality is formed during the seven years of infancy and the ‘I’ is the error which is perpetuated from century to century fortifying itself more and more each time with the mechanics of recurrence.
The personality is energetic, is born with habits, customs, ideas, etc. during infancy and is fortified with the experiences of life. Both the personality as well as the ‘I’ should be disintegrated. We are more revolutionary in the psychological teachings than Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.
The ‘I’ utilizes the personality as an instrument of action. Personalism results from that mixture of ego and personality. Personality worship was invented by the ‘I’. Really, personalism engenders egoisms, hatreds, violences, etc. All of this is rejected by A-Himsa
Personalism totally ruins esoteric organizations. Personalism produces anarchy and confusion. Personalism can totally destroy any organization.
In each reincorporation —return— the ego fabricates a new personality. Each person is different in each new reimbodiment.
It is urgent to know how to live. When the ‘I’ is dissolved, the Great Reality, true Happiness, That which has no name, comes to us.
Let us distinguish between the Being and the ‘I’. The man of today only has the ‘I’ Man is a being that is not yet attained. It is urgent to attain the Being, it is necessary to know that the Being is limitless happiness.
It is absurd to say that the Being is the “superior I”, the “divine I”, etc. The Being, being of a universal and cosmic type, cannot have the flavor of ego. Let us not try to make the ‘I’ divine.
A-Himsa is non violence in thought, word and deed. A-Himsa is respect; for others’ ideas, respect for all religions, schools, sects, organizations, etc.
Let us not expect the ‘I’ to evolve because the ‘I’ never perfects itself ever. We need a total Revolution of Consciousness. This is the only type of revolution that we accept.
The doctrine of A-Himsa is based on the Revolution of the Dialectic, on the Revolution of Consciousness.
As we die from instant to instant, harmony among men slowly develops. As we die from instant to instant, the sense of cooperation keeps on totally replacing the sense of competition. As we die from moment to moment, good will replaces ill-will little by little.
Men of good will accept A-Himsa. It is impossible to initiate a new order in our psyche while excluding the doctrine of non-violence.
A-Himsa should be cultivated in homes by following the path of the Perfect Marriage. It is only with non-violence in thought and deed that happiness can reign in homes.
A-Himsa should be the foundation of daily living, at the office, at the workshop, in the countryside, at home, on the street, etc. We should live the doctrine of non violence.
Samael Aun Weor
