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Generation Gap
hundred thousand dollars if you or anyone else can make an insect
for me. Will you make one? It is not possible right?
Questioner : No.
Dadashri : So then how can you kill them? Can even a
scientist create an insect?
Questioner : No.
Dadashri : So then you cannot kill anything that you cannot
create yourself. You can make this chair; you can make all such
things, and those things you can destroy. Do you understand?
Questioner : Yes.
Dadashri : So what will you do from now on?
Questioner : I will not kill any more insects.
Dadashri : Do you think that insects have a fear of dying?
Do they run away when you try to kill them?
Questioner : Yes.
Dadashri : Then how can you kill them? All these wheat
and barley crops do not become frightened when you harvest
them. They do not run away. Does the eggplant run away when
you cut it with a knife?
Questioner : No.
Dadashri : Then you can cook it and eat it. Are you afraid
of dying?
Questioner : Yes.
Dadashri : So in the same way, the insects too have the
same fear.
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