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are being egoistic about saving lives. The Lord also says that one
must eliminate any inner intent of wanting to hurt or kill another
living being, because this intent is one of the evidences. It is when
the evidence of intent comes together with all the other evidences
that an event materializes. So intent is one of the many evidences.
But people however, take on the responsibility for all the other
evidences when they claim with ego that the event occurred entirely
because of them.
Death Occurs Only at Its Designated Time
I am disclosing a very subtle fact here, that no living entity
can ever be killed unless the time of its death is precise. For
example, if a man has seven lambs and he has to sell two of them,
only the two for whom the time of death is near, will be sold. Why
have only these two been chosen, when he is equally fond of them
all? The lambs too will merrily go along with the butcher. It is
because their time of death has arrived. At the slaughterhouse
when the lambs are branded with paint, they are joyful because
they think they are being decorated for a festival. This is the way
of this world. It is worth understanding all this.
Hence, no one dies without his or her appointed time of
death. But if you have intent to kill, you are actually committing
violence against your own self. A life-form will only die when the
time for its death is right and when all the circumstances come
together to produce the actual event. So many evidences that are
not visible to the eye come together and only then will that life
cease to be. A person might feel responsible if he accidentally
steps on an insect, but how can he be held liable when he did not
have the intention to kill it in the first place? He will insist that he
killed the insect because he stepped on it, and I would then ask
him to whom does the foot that crushed the insect belong? It does
not belong to the Soul, his Real Self and thus he is not responsible.
Even if the foot became paralyzed, it would not affect the Soul.
Only the Gnani Purush can clarify what is real and what is relative.