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Non-Violence
did not mention a word of this. What wisdom! What purity! Their
purity sanctified the grounds they walked on.
Intent-violence can only be contained when effect violence
is stopped, but of the two, intent-violence is the more important.
The Lord had said for us not to be preoccupied with the violence-
non-violence of the life-forms. He said that one could become
truly non-violent only when one stops intent-violence.
Defining Intent Violence
According to the Lord, what is the highest violence? The
Lord says, ‘we do not consider the actual killing, violence. But
the intent to kill made by the person is violence.’ This is indeed
the ultimate violence. People on the other hand only blame the
person instrumental in the act of killing, but they do not consider
the internal intent of the person; whether he intended to kill or
whether he acted against his wishes. The actual act of killing is an
effect carried out by vyavasthit. People are completely unaware
of his intent violence. The most important thing of all is not the act
of killing but the intent within. It is ‘vyavasthit’ that kills the life. A
person is merely being egotistical when he claims that he did the
killing. The person who does the intent to kill is really the guilty
one and in making this intent, he becomes the real killer.
All you have to do is have the intent: ‘Let no living being be
hurt through the medium of my thoughts, speech and actions’.
And after that you are not held liable should any violence occur.
You should however, sincerely repent and ask for forgiveness so
that you do not incur any liability.
People are incapable of understanding the subtlety of this
point, but from where will they acquire such an understanding? It
would be disastrous if someone discussed these facts outside this
satsang. I cannot tell this to the public at large; one can never say
such things in public, do you understand?
Intent non-violence means that one will never have the intent