64 Non-Violence
one has the strength to do this, but nevertheless people have a false notion( vikalp) about it, which is why they are forever caught in the cycle of birth and death. All the Gnanis have witnessed the way the world functions. People have so many false beliefs, so how can they be free from them?
No single living entity can take the life of another. Despite this, the Lord tells us to abandon our violent ways and practice ahimsa. What He really means for us to do is abandon the ego of killing; nothing else, for it is truly a false ego. In reality nothing ever dies so why then do you claim to kill? You incur a tremendous liability because of your ego and that ego will lead you into an abyss of endless suffering.
Let the life-form die at the hands of its own nimit( the entity instrumental in the death of that life-form). It is going to die anyway so why must you have the unnecessary ego of killing? It is to put a stop to this very kind of ego that the Lord has encouraged ahimsa. The Lord gave ahimsa to people so that they would stop exercising the ego of killing.
Questioner: Is this not too much knowledge for the average person to comprehend?
Dadashri: Yes it is a lot, which is why it has not been disclosed. On the contrary, the Lord emphasizes that everyone should save lives and if not, they would die for sure.
The Science behind Protecting and Killing
The killing, protecting and saving of lives only pertains to the relative world and not to reality. In reality, no single living being can ever kill another life-form. No man can independently kill of his own volition. Killing only occurs when all the scientific circumstantial evidences come together. None of these evidences are under anyone’ s control. No human being is independently capable of protecting another life-form either. Only if the scientific circumstantial evidences are present, can lives be saved, but people