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Non-Violence
practice towards Self-Realization will be hindered. True spiritual
practice towards the Self happens when the aspirant’s primary
focus is not in achieving a healthy body. Your body has brought
with it everything for its preservation so you need not interfere.
You should completely immerse yourself in your spiritual goal.
Everything else is as it should be. That is why I am telling you to
stay in the present, because the past is gone forever and the future
is in the hands of vyavasthit.
Think of your body-through which you have met a Gnani
Purush- as a friend. Even if the medicine prescribed causes
violence, you must still take it, and care for the body. Everything
in life is based on a process of profit and loss. If this body were to
live two more years, you could accomplish a lot within this time,
because it is through this body that you have come to meet the
Gnani Purush. You will incur some loss through violence, but your
benefits will be twenty times greater! Your benefits will far outweigh
your losses; it is all a business of profit and loss.
In this world there is nothing but life-forms. Countless life-
forms are destroyed in just one breath, so does it mean that you
should stop breathing? If this were possible, the problem would
be solved, because as it is people have made absolute madness
of this. There is nothing here that needs to be analyzed critically.
The only thing you need to be cautious about is that you must not
harm those life-forms that flee away in fear from you.
One’s Diet is Based On One’s Level of Spiritual
Development
In foreign countries they believe that God created this world,
and so he created man. He made goats, chickens and fish etc. for
human consumption. If animals were made for such a purpose,
then why do humans not eat dogs, cats or tigers? If animals were
made for eating, then God would have made them all equal. If
God made your food, he would make everything edible. If God
were the creator of everything, why would he make such things