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Mohanty, Nirode
Dr. Nirode Mohanty is Consultant on terrorism, GPS navigation, network architecture, systems analysis and design, signal processing, and religious studies for thirty years at State University of New York, Buffalo, the University of California, Riverside, and California State University, Long Beach.
2026 1-4955-1349-1Vedic principles are deeply intertwined with nonviolence, known as ahimsa, which originates from Hindu scriptures like the Vedas and is seen as the highest virtue. While ahimsa is the ideal, the concept of dharma can justify violence only as a last resort in a dharma yudha (righteous war) to prevent greater harm, with strict rules on minimizing cruelty and protecting noncombatants. Ahimsa extends beyond physical harm to include avoiding harmful thoughts and words, and it influences practices like vegetarianism and respectful interactions. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism have for millennia been teaching noninjury, called ahimsa, as a spiritual principle and practical ethic. Nonviolence is effective if there are free press and judiciary.
2024 1-4955-1233-9
"The world is spiraling toward conflict, belligerence, and disharmony and is now going through an unprecedented social and spiritual crisis, class confrontation, calamity, and nuclear and terrorist threats. The rise of drug use, broken families, the number of single parents, the rise of school and public place mass shootings, suicides, and depression, the rise of sexual scandals among priests and media. The rise in the overuse of iPads and spartphones by young kids are threatening our home, society, schools, and the environment with vicious violence, menacing insecurity, wild protests, and rampant immorality. ...Based on the Vedas, the Upanishad, the Brahma Sutra, and the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedic values are declining." -Nirode Mohanty ("Preface")
2021 1-4955-0903-6
Dr. Nirode Mohanty describes how the Vedic view of perceiving life, and living according to the universal principles that are inherent to the philosophy, would improve the spiritual and mental well-being of the world in general.