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understand only this much, your work will be done. Who are
you to kill the one whose death has been decided even before
he is born? Anyone who has made the intent, ‘I want to kill a
snake’, will always be around along with others of the same
intent. So all you have to do is shout out loud, “There is a snake
in my house”, and those people will automatically come running
because they have made it their business!
An arrow fired by one who has non-violent intent
(ahimsak bhaav), will not cause any bleeding but a flower
thrown by one with intent to hurt (himsak bhaav), will. The
arrow and the flower are not as effective as the intent behind
them. Therefore, behind every word of ‘ours’, there is a
constant bhaav of, ‘Let no one be hurt; not a single living being
be hurt through the speech.’ This speech comes out constantly
with the inner intent of not hurting any living being in the slightest
through the mind, body and speech. Objects or things do
nothing; the arrow or the flower does not make the impact, but
the intent behind them, does. Therefore, every one of you should
have such intent. Every morning you should make a firm decision
and say five times, “Let not any living being be hurt through my
mind, body and speech.” If you do this much with a true inner
intent, then the Lord says that even if you do happen to hurt
someone, you are not responsible. Why did the Lord say this?
Because the Lord knows that it is not your intent to hurt. This
is how the world is. On the other hand even though you may not
hurt anyone or kill bugs but, if you say, “All bugs that come my
way must be killed”, then it is same as killing them whole day
long. So this is how the world is.
Have compassion for your self only
It is worth understanding the world. The Lord says killing
or not killing is not under your control. Not even defecating is
under your independent control. When you become constipated,
you will realize ‘truly it is not under my control.’ For just once