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because there will be a shortage of grain if we do not.” Those
that preach in this way, commit a greater fault (dosh). The poor
butchers are just doing it to ‘feed their bellies’ (provide for their
family). And what about the ‘goats’(!) these zealots of the
religion of ahimsa (non-violence) kill? What are they killing for?
Questioner: I did not understand that.
Dadashri: These butchers who kill goats are better! They
kill the animal with a single clean (halaal) cut, but they do not
torture it. Whereas these people inflict a slow torture. If they
lend you five hundred rupees, in twelve months, four hundred of
it alone will be the interest! And again, they kill you with their
intellect (buddhi); they do not need a handgun. If a customer
ventures into a fabric shop, he will be enticed by, “This is a high
quality fabric, just newly imported from Allahabad.”, so – being
as naive and gullible as he is – he ends up buying it. The
shopkeepers recognize that the customer is not very astute, so
they take advantage of him. So they shoot him with their ‘bullet’
of intellect (buddhi). This is considered tremendous
raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and
others).
What is going to become of them? These businessmen
(sheths) use such far out tactics that all the farmers in the district
bring their money home to them. They charge interest upon
interest upon interest, so the poor farmers who are laboring so
hard to pay off, the exorbitant interest, are reduced to corpses;
whereas the sheths, strut around with their corpulent 150kg
bodies! But when the time changes, that very body will be
reduced to chutney (crushed condiments)! Krupadudev Shrimad
Rajchandra said that, those who eat to increase their body flesh
are all flesh eaters. Food is meant for survival. But instead, it
bloats up here and plumps up there, until it is a fat tub!
Questioner: So the one who encourages and instigates
(anumodana) others is at greater fault?