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Non-Violence
allowed and which are forbidden. You must not harm or eat things
that flee from you for their life.
Questioner: An egg does not run away from us in fear, so
are we allowed to eat it?
Dadashri: The egg does not run away, but the life contained
within the egg is in a dormant state of unconsciousness. Will you
not discover the life within when it begins to hatch?
Questioner: Yes, we will see that immediately. But what if
it does not hatch?
Dadashri: That is because the life within it is in a dormant
state. Whether or not it hatches into a chicken is a different matter.
Even the human fetus at four or five weeks, is in the same state as
the egg, so you must not harm the egg. We humans know what
happens to the egg after it hatches.
Milk: Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarian?
Questioner: Just as one should not eat the ‘vegetarian’
egg, one should not drink the milk of a cow.
Dadashri: You cannot eat eggs but you can drink cows’
milk, eat yogurt and some can even eat butter made from that
milk. There are no restrictions.
The Lord had forbidden some people to eat butter, but
that was for specific people and for a different reason. You can
make puddings and sweets from that milk. Even if some scriptures
forbid this, I will tell you that those scriptures are wrong and that
there are no restrictions. Go ahead and enjoy them but take care
not to overindulge.
Questioner: But nature had intended the milk for the calves
and not for us.
Dadashri: That is completely false. Only the calves of the
wild cows and buffaloes drink all their mother’s milk. People