Non-Violence
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revenge may come in countless ways. A snake may even bite
you. You cannot afford to create any vengeance whatsoever with
anyone in this world. And whatever suffering you experience is
the result of your own past wrongdoings, where you have hurt
others. Otherwise, there would be no suffering in this world.
Questioner: So is life a perpetual conflict?
Dadashri: Yes, but if you create an atmosphere of ahimsa,
nothing can harm you. Not even a snake or a tiger will harm you.
Even if someone threw a snake at you, the poor creature would
leave you unharmed. You cannot imagine the tremendous power
of ahimsa. The power of ahimsa is unparalleled. There is no greater
weakness than that of violence. Violence is behind all the suffering
in this world. Tremendous violence.
Not a single living being has the power to hurt you, and the
one that does, does so because of your own karmic account. So
settle all your accounts. If someone hurts you or something bites
you and you develop bitter feelings of revenge, you will be binding
new accounts. If a dog bites you and if you hold the belief that,
‘all dogs should be killed’: you have created a new karmic account.
No matter what the circumstances are, you should handle the
situation with equanimity, without any attachment or abhorrence.
You should not feel any negativity from within.
Questioner: But in these situations, our awareness fails us
and we are unable to maintain our inner equanimity.
Dadashri: It is very difficult to cross the ocean of this worldly
life and that is why I give you this Akram Vignan (the shortcut
path to Self-Realization).
Who is at Fault –The Butcher or the Meat-Eater?
Questioner: What happens to a butcher who takes this
Gnan but continues his work as a butcher and wants to keep
doing it?