8 Non-Violence
The Law is Kept
Questioner: Mosquitoes are a nuisance! What can we do about them?
Dadashri: Understand that anything in this world that aggravates you does so within natures prescribed limits. This law even binds your suffering. If you want to be free of these mosquitoes, sleep inside a mosquito net but do not kill them.
Questioner: So should we preserve their life and not kill them? Dadashri: Yes.
Questioner: What if we utter‘ Sri Rama’ s name as we kill them, would it mean that they would attain a higher life-form in their next life?
Dadashri: You will go to a lower life-form for inflicting suffering on the mosquito.
Questioner: Do mosquitoes bite saints?
Dadashri: They even bit the Lord. They used to bite Lord Mahavir a lot. They just would not leave without collecting on their debts.
Your Own Debts
Recognize that when a single mosquito even touches you, it is exact. It is meant to be. If you were to be bitten on your hand, it would not be able to bite you on your leg, even if it wanted to! How can this world be wrong when it has been arranged with such precision? This precise arrangement is the‘ regulator of the world’ and continuously keeps it in‘ regulation’. I am making this statement based on my own vision.
‘ Hitlerism’ Prohibited Everywhere No one in this world is in a position to hurt or hinder you,