बहुत लोग तो मौत आनेसे पहले ही सचमुच मर जाते हैं। यानी वे स्थूलरूपमें जीते रहने पर भी जाग्रतिका दीपक धारण करना बन्द कर चुके होते हैं। अक निश्चित कालसे ज्यादा बहुत ही कम लोग जीते हैं। मगर असा मनुष्य क्वचित् ही पैदा होता है जो किसी मूलभूत विश्वविचारको अपने आपमें मूर्तिमान करता है, जैसा कि बुद्ध और भीसा कर सके। वह शाश्वत काल तक जीता रहता है।" अनिष्टकी हस्तीके बारे में कितने ही विचार बहुत गंभीर चिन्तन बतानेवाले हैं : "Now it is certain that evil has its definite and necessary function in the economy of the world. Destruction alone prepares the way for a radical innovation. If there is to be serious progress, then the natural processes of growth and decay must occasionally be accelerated. Only revolution explodes old rigid forms, only the premature end of generations, such as war brings about, rends the thread of fettering tradition. World-embracing cultures would never have come to exist if one species of men had not subjugated others and thus raised certain forms, out of the jungle of wild luxuriance to predominance. Last and not least death and killing are normal processes of nature. The Indian myth according to which creation and destruction are correlative attributes of the deity is apparently very near to the truth; at times evil is divinely ordained. Only man should not usurp the position of Shiva; what is befitting to Him, man may not desire deliberately; the inevitability of death does not justify the murderer. Just as birth and natural death are beyond the sphere of personal volition so does the general scheme according to which the whole life evolves stand above individual judgement. But men only do rarely what they ought to do, all the more rarely the more consciously they act. And where they undertake to determine events, believing themselves to know the plan of the whole, they work mischief. It leads to insensate wars, to all exterminating revolutions; the self- regulation of nature is destroyed and folly gains the victory. In this way white men have made havoc upon earth in many many in all too many directions.... Violence ३०८
