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Non-Violence
Dadashri: If you are non-violent and you are to reincarnate
in the animal kingdom, you will be born a cow or a buffalo
(vegetarian animal). If you are violent in this life you will be born
as a tiger, a cat or any other carnivorous animal. Even if you are
non-violent as a human, you can still take birth in a violent family
where your upbringing will be fraught with violence. This all has to
do with your karmic accounts. This is all related to your likes and
dislikes, your attachment and abhorrence. When a person does
raag (attachment) or dwesh (abhorrence) towards others, he
becomes bound and as a result will be born in close proximity
with people who do the same.
Nothing Affects the Non-Violent One
Questioner: What is the karmic connection when a dog
bites you?
Dadashri: Without a karmic connection, not even a single
mustard seed will enter your mouth!
Questioner: Does it mean that we have a karmic tie with
that dog?
Dadashri: No. You have not bound karma specifically with
the dog that bites you. For that matter, even people ‘bite’ each
other, do they not? One man told me that his wife was like a
serpent because she kept biting him at night. What he really meant
was that she had a sharp tongue and would say vicious things to
him. The consequence of interacting with someone in such a way
would be a ‘dog-bite’, or ‘bites’ from others. Everything in nature
is ready to deliver the consequences of your own actions. Nature
is prepared to deliver the effects of whatever karma you have
bound.
So if you want to be free from all the suffering in this world,
you must not strike back at the people who hurt you. If you hurt
someone even slightly, then in your next life, the effect of the karma
you cause will not leave without taking revenge against you. The