ahimsa
the principle of noninjury to living beings.
Origin of ahimsa
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How to use ahimsa in a sentence
ahimsa requires deliberate self-suffering, not a deliberate injuring of the supposed wrong-doer.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma GandhiIn its positive form, ahimsa means the largest love, the greatest charity.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma Gandhiahimsa truly understood is in my humble opinion a panacea for all evils mundane and extra-mundane.
Third class in Indian railways | Mahatma GandhiBut Mr. Gandhi, with all his visionary idealism, was letting loose dangerous forces which recked naught of ahimsa.
India, Old and New | Sir Valentine ChirolHe hated no one, for that would be a negation of the great principle of ahimsa, on which he expatiated with immense earnestness.
India, Old and New | Sir Valentine Chirol
British Dictionary definitions for ahimsa
/ (ɑːˈhɪmsɑː) /
(in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist philosophy) the law of reverence for, and nonviolence to, every form of life
Origin of ahimsa
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