Anuvrat
A constructive Endeavour Towards A Nonviolent Multicultural Society
The Anuvrat Movement has been engaged in the noble task of uplifting human life and revitalizing the rapidly crumbling moral and spiritual values among the people of the world irrespective of casts, creed and colour for the last three and a half decades.
Launched on March 1, 1949 by Acharya Shree Tulsi – the head of a Jain sect and a leading visionary of India – the Movement has since grown steadily in size and stature. Though it does not lay claim to any spectacular success or acheivement, there is no gains saving the fact that its universal appeal for gains saving the fact that its universal appeal for self-awakening has created a great impact on the outlook and behaviour of many people. It was hailed and patronised by eminent people like the late Dr. Rajendra Prasad. C Rajgopalachari, Pt. Jawarhalal Nehru, Dr S. Radhakrishnan and Jai Prakash Narayan. It has been striving to infuse with new life people degenerating fast into what T.S. Elliot aptly calls "automatications or living shadows inhibiting the great wasteland".
While many western celebrities like Bertrand Russell and Martin Luther King were organising huge peace rallies exhorting the people to raise their voice against the senseless genocide caused by the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by a strange coincidence, as it were, a relatively unknown religious preceptor of the East heading a Jain sect, seated far away in a relatively unknown religious preceptor of the East heading a Jain sect, seated far away in a remote town of Thar desert of Rajasthan, was engaged in an identical mission, though in a small way, of rousing the masses against violence and moral torpor. He heard the inner call that commanded him to throw off the yoke of sectrism dogmatism and launched a crusade against caste, untouchability, subjection of women and religious intolerance. His response to the call resulted in the birth of Anuvrat movement. It was
The Anuvrat Movement has been engaged in the noble task of uplifting human life and revitalizing the rapidly crumbling moral and spiritual values among the people of the world irrespective of casts, creed and colour for the last three and a half decades.
Launched on March 1, 1949 by Acharya Shree Tulsi – the head of a Jain sect and a leading visionary of India – the Movement has since grown steadily in size and stature. Though it does not lay claim to any spectacular success or acheivement, there is no gains saving the fact that its universal appeal for gains saving the fact that its universal appeal for self-awakening has created a great impact on the outlook and behaviour of many people. It was hailed and patronised by eminent people like the late Dr. Rajendra Prasad. C Rajgopalachari, Pt. Jawarhalal Nehru, Dr S. Radhakrishnan and Jai Prakash Narayan. It has been striving to infuse with new life people degenerating fast into what T.S. Elliot aptly calls "automatications or living shadows inhibiting the great wasteland".
While many western celebrities like Bertrand Russell and Martin Luther King were organising huge peace rallies exhorting the people to raise their voice against the senseless genocide caused by the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by a strange coincidence, as it were, a relatively unknown religious preceptor of the East heading a Jain sect, seated far away in a relatively unknown religious preceptor of the East heading a Jain sect, seated far away in a remote town of Thar desert of Rajasthan, was engaged in an identical mission, though in a small way, of rousing the masses against violence and moral torpor. He heard the inner call that commanded him to throw off the yoke of sectrism dogmatism and launched a crusade against caste, untouchability, subjection of women and religious intolerance. His response to the call resulted in the birth of Anuvrat movement. It was