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created this difference? Did it do it purposefully or did it happen
naturally?
Dadashri: No, there is no difference whatsoever.
Whatever one perceives is just one’s own wrong belief. It is like
a man who reads a book during the daytime, and comes across
a passage about ghosts, and when he is alone at night and he
goes into his room to sleep, as soon as he hears the mice rattle
a cup in the other room, he gets shaken up right away! Now
from the time the ghost entered his mind, it will carry on affecting
him unless it leaves altogether.
Questioner: Even within this entire universe, there exist
differences among every living being (jiva).
Dadashri: There are no differences in any living being. All
living beings are one by nature. The differences only exist through
one’s drashti bhed (different perception). And these differences
are governed by Nature. Moreover, the differences are external;
they are differences in the clothing but not at the main level
within.
Questioner: There is a difference in behavior. In the way
cows, goats, buffaloes are all vegetarian, and lions and tigers are
carnivores. Who created these differences? Why are there
differences? Is it because the embodied soul (jiva) is different?
Is it because their physical bodies are different? Or is it a worldly
difference? Is it because of their different life-form (jiva), that
there is a difference in the way they live?
Dadashri: No. It is not like that. Listen to what I am
going to say! There are so many casts and communities, but they
do not all eat meat, do they? So if they had to go into the animal
realm, where would they go? They would go into communities
where there is no eating flesh. It means they would go into non-
carnivorous species such as cows and buffaloes. Whereas meat-
eating kings, aristocrats and such, will all go to the animal realm.
And where do you think they go? They do not become cows