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In the Yoga Sutras, the first of the eight limbs of yoga is calledyama. Yama has five aspects, beginning with ahimsa, which means non-injuryor non-violence. Mahatma Gandhimade ahimsa famous when he mobilized all of India to free itself from Britishdomination without firing a shot. Martin Luther King, Jr., the head of the civil rights movement in theU.S., was one of many who were influenced by Gandhi and his use of ahimsa toachieve social change without violence.The Yoga Sutradescribes what happens when a person is established in non-injury: Wherenon-injury is established, in the vicinity of that, hostile tendencies areeliminated. (2.35)In Sanskrit: ahimsa-pratishthayam tat-sannidhau vaira-tyagah. Theword-for-word translation is: Where non-injury (ahimsa) is established(pratishthayam), in the vicinity (sannidhau) of that (tat), hostile tendencies(vaira) are eliminated (tyagah).According to the Yoga Sutra, where is non-injury established? In thestate of yoga, which is defined in the second sutra of the Yoga Sutra as thecomplete settling of the activity of the mind. This settled mind, the mindestablished in yoga, is free of injury, and the Yoga Sutra says that for thisperson the environment becomes free of hostilities. St. Francis of Assisi, forinstance, was famous for calming people and even animals around him by hissheer power of love. An individual who has a mind full of peace radiates aninfluence of peace, and then creates a reality that is peaceful.This is where non-violence becomes effective. It is a state of mindthat, in Maharishi Mahesh Yogis words, disallows the birth of an enemy. Whenenmity has been eliminated inside, there is no enemy outside. According toMaharishi, An enemy is the lively embodiment of our own weakness.The principle of non-injury is also described in quantum physics as theMeissner Effect, which shows that a coherent system generates a field around itthat is coherent. Non-coherent fields will not penetrate a coherent system. While it is possible to understand how this principle applies toindividuals, what would happen if a large group were established in the stateof yoga?In the summer of 1993, 4,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to seeif practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique in groups for 2 monthswould affect the crime rate of the city. Dr. John Hagelin, a quantum physicist,predicted that the crime rate would drop by at least 20%. The chief of policewent on the evening news and said that it would take a snow blizzard in themiddle of summer to accomplish that.Yet, after two months, public records showed that the crime ratedropped 26%. Since most peoples paradigm about the nature of reality is basedupon classical mechanics, this experimental result seems unlikely. However,from a quantum perspective, the Washington, D.C., study follows the sameprinciple as the Meissner Effect and was described long ago in the Toga Sutrain the vicinity of yoga, hostile tendencies are eliminated.Takingit a step further, what if throughout our society there we many large groups ofindividuals who could do their Transcendental Meditation practice togetherevery day to heighten the experience of Yoga? Imagine the possibilities. A groupof school children meditate and stress levels and violence go down in theneighborhood. A group of elderly people meditate together and their city beginsto be more progressive and prosperous. Its a possibility that could yieldprofound results both for the individual and for society at virtually no cost,and with great side-benefits for each of the individuals involved. Its worthexploring, isnt it?
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