Non-Violence
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so if anything happens to you, do not blame the world: the fault is
your own. Everything that you experience in your life is the echo
of all the meddling you, yourself did in your previous life. You
would not have such echoes if you had not been so meddlesome.
Not even a single mosquito can bite you unless you had
previously interfered with it. Even if you were lying in a bed full of
bedbugs, not a single bug will touch you, if you have not interfered
in your past life. What is the law that governs this? People have
thoughts like, ‘Kill all these bugs, and get rid of them’. This is
interference. Do they not use insecticides? This is ‘Hitlerism’ -
gassing human beings to death. Yet the bugs say: ‘You will not
affect us much. We will not stop propagating.’
So all your accounts will be cleared when you cease to
interfere. There will be no ‘bites’ of any kind without the causes
of interference.
How can you tell if all the debts have been paid off? When
in the midst of a swarm of mosquitoes, not a single mosquito bites
you. Even the bedbugs will forget their natural tendency to bite. If
a furious and violent man rushes in here suddenly, his anger and
violence will vanish when he sets eyes on me. His thinking will
change: Such is the power of ahimsa.
It is vyavasthit (Scientific Circumstantial Evidences) that
arranges everything. The mosquito is not aware that it will bite
Chandulal and Chandulal is not aware that he will be bitten, but
vyavasthit unites the two. Vyavasthit determines the time of the
event when the air pulls the mosquito to its location and it is also
vyavasthit that pulls it away after the event. It is vyavasthit that
frees them from their account so they both can go their separate
ways. A mosquito can fly for miles to settle accounts with anyone
who has interfered with it in the past.
No Difference between Thorns and Mosquitoes
When a mosquito bites, people blame the mosquito, but