ahimsa

Both regard this endless round as the fundamental predicament, and both offer release from it as the highest goal. Both hold up ahimsa , non-violence, as a central ethical ideal.

Five of them: ahimsa , non-harming; satya , truthfulness; asteya , non-stealing; brahmacharya , continence; aparigraha , non-grasping.

For Gandhi the Kurukshetra war was largely an allegory of the moral struggle inside every person, and the Gita's deepest lesson was non-attachment in the service of truth and ahimsa , non-violence.

… non-harm, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-grasping ( ahimsa-satya-asteya-brahmacharya-aparigraha , 2.30).

… why Jain practice puts such extraordinary weight on austerity and on ahimsa , non-harm, since violence is the stickiest karma of all.

Vyasa, in the foundational Yoga Bhashya , treats ahimsa , non-harming, as the root from which every other restraint and observance grows.

Mohandas Gandhi read the Gita as, above all, an allegory of the moral struggle inside every person, and he drew from it a charter for ahimsa , non-violence, and for detached action.