Non-Violence 83
Dadashri: The final total will always be there and it will always speak for itself. If there is ninety-six percent ahimsa there would be four percent violence
Questioner: So what would be the nature of such violence?
Dadashri: It is the violence of the ultimate stage. At that stage, the person will know how much himsa is left and will quickly dispense with it and become liberated.
The Gnani: the Non-Violent One in the Ocean of Violence
People ask me why I travel by cars although I am a Gnani. In their minds they hold that traveling by car involves much violence to small life-forms like insects etc. They also ask who is held accountable for the violence that this entails. Now how can a Gnani be called a Gnani if he is not absolutely non-violent? Absolute non-violence here means totally non-violent in an ocean of violence!
People tell me that they have read my books and they find them appealing and without any contradictions, but they also tell me that my behavior contradicts my message of ahimsa. I explain to them what the Lord has said in the scriptures that the Self- Realized Gnani has no ownership of his body and because of this he is not liable for the body’ s actions. Secondly the Gnani does not renounce nor take up anything. They did not understand the meaning of‘ not having ownership of the body’, so I asked them why they thought that I commit violence in such acts. One person asked whether it would constitute violence if he were to crush an insect under his foot. I told him that it is violence because he believes that it is his foot that steps on the insect. I told him that I have no ownership over this body and hence there is no doer ship in the act.
He wanted me to give him examples and define what a person owns and what he does not. I gave him the following