Non-violence, pure and simple, is the Beyond state of God. It is the goal of humanity. It cannot exist where one is still in the stages of a seeker. The seeker can, however, reach this goal through the means of "non-violence of the brave," or of "selfless violence," which means non-violent violence.
Beloved God is the Goal. Love is the means. The lover can reach the Beloved through love. God in the Beyond state of Paramatma is love, light and life Infinite. He is everything. Unless one realizes God and has love infinite, one cannot be purely and infinitely non-violent. God does not include violence, just as love does not include lust. Non-violence, pure and simple, is love infinite.
A lover, who is longing to see the Beloved, is in the same stage and category as a seeker on the Path. A majzoob, who has become one with the Beloved through love, is in the same state as God.
The difference between these stages may be explained in the following manner: Suppose you are slapped or kicked by someone. If you do not retaliate but keep quiet and do nothing, it is the category of a seeker who practices "non-violence of the brave." In a similar case of a majzoob being slapped or kicked by someone, it is quite different. He has neither the necessity to keep quiet or control himself, nor has he to make an effort for the same. Because, in his state as a majzoob, which is divine bliss, he does not at all "feel" the slap or the kick. He has gone beyond that state of feeling.
The question of "feeling," even after God-realization, comes only when the God-realized being again comes down to the world of phenomena with normal consciousness. There, he can use non-violence, pure and simple, which is based on divine love, and try to persuade the aggressor — the one who slapped or kicked — through infinite love. In his Beyond state, where all souls are One, he is himself both the striker and the stricken, the aggressor and the aggrieved.
It is either Unity — Oneness — or duality. There is no stage in-between.
Different yogas have different means; for example, for bhakti yoga, it is love; for karma yoga, it is non-violence and so on. In karma yoga, love for individuals is "non-violence of the brave," and love for the masses is "non-violent violence." The Beloved in karma yoga is non-violence pure and simple. Now to reach the Beloved aspect, you have to go through the path of love.