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Aptavani-2 145 Hard raudradhyan Another aspect of dhyan is hard raudradhyan which has also increased in the current time cycle. Hard raudradhyan means to take advantage of people with lesser intelligence using one’s higher intelligence. People take advantage of other people and hurt them through their intellect; they ‘suck the blood’ out of people leaving them with only ‘skin and bones’ and yet they claim to be ahimsak (practicing non-violence towards other living beings). They claim ‘Ahimsa is the highest religion.’ These sheths have made such ‘arrangements’ that they sit comfortably on their soft cushions all day while their farmers toil day and night. The cream of the crop comes to the sheth’s home while the workers have barely enough to eat with whatever is left. The sheths use their higher intellect to take advantage of those with lesser intellect; they kill their workers slowly and gradually, and that is hard raudradhyan. Instead it would be better if they were to kill their workers by cutting them in two, at least that way if they see blood, they would come to their senses! ‘What have I done?’ that would be raudradhyan not hard raudradhyan. But in hard raudradhyan, the mind never falters, instead it becomes worse. In hard raudradhyan the sheths suck the blood of their workers without shedding a drop. Now how can anyone tackle something like this? There is absolutely no end to this. The consequences of hard raudradhyan are very grave indeed; not even the seventh hell is befitting for such hard raudradhyan. So, is it not important to understand hard raudradhyan and updhyan in great details? What do you think? Or do you think it is not necessary to understand? Questioner : One will have to understand, Dada. Dadashri : The current time cycle is that of the dusham kaal (aka Kaliyug – an era of destruction), 2500 years after Lord Mahavir. So everyone has made mistakes. All ascetics and alike have erred too. With the exception of just a few, all ascetics continue to do artadhyan, raudradhyan and updhyan