Non-Violence
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Questioner: Neither violence is good, but Self-violence is
worse.
Dadashri: While all these people are cautious about
physical violence (effect-violence), Self-violence is continually
occurring within. The scriptures say that self-violence is really
intent-violence. After acquiring this Gnan, your intent-violence
ceases. That is why you experience so much inner peace.
Questioner: Krupaludev has called intent-violence
(bhaav himsa), ‘intent-death’ (bhaav maran - death of the Self),
has he not? Krupaludev had asked, “From moment to moment,
why are you involved in such terrible intent-death?” Is there really
intent death in every moment?
Dadashri: Yes, each and every moment dreadful intent-
death is occurring. What does he mean by this? Actually, intent-
death is taking place not from moment to moment, but continually
in the smallest unit of time. He has given a gross description of the
frequency of intent-death, which in reality occurs all the time. The
belief ‘I am Chandulal’, is intent-death. In any situation, to believe
‘it is happening to me’, is intent-death. People are immersed in
this belief all the time. They say and believe that they are the ones
who are fasting and meditating or practicing austerities.
Questioner: So instead of intent-death, how can we have
intent-life?
Dadashri: Intent is not living; it is non-living. Intent-death
is the same as intent-sleep (a state of unawareness of the Real
Self.). In Akram Vignan there is no basis for intent (bhaav) and
therefore there is no intent-death taking place, because intent has
been separated from the Self. People in the kramic path are
perpetually in a state of intent-death.
Krupaludev, being a Gnani Purush, was the only one who
understood intent-death, and so he had to constantly be on the