Reading about nonviolence

AI-assisted reading path; questions and selection are editorial. The quotations below are stored source text. The full source pages include their original purports and citations.

How is nonviolence situated among the other qualities in each passage?

1. BG 13.8-12

   Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth—all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.

   Read BG 13.8-12 in context · Source: Vanisource

   Edition and source record

   Edition: 1983+ · page 14062, revision 781546

2. SB 1.18.22

   Self-controlled persons who are attached to the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa can all of a sudden give up the world of material attachment, including the gross body and subtle mind, and go away to attain the highest perfection of the renounced order of life, by which nonviolence and renunciation are consequential.

   Read SB 1.18.22 in context · Source: Vanisource

   Edition and source record

   Edition not specified in this source record · page 1261, revision 756121

Related contextual definitions

• Ahiṁsā: nonviolence
• Vairāgya: detachment

These editorial questions invite comparison; they are not quotations or canonical commentary.

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