Non-Violence
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Dadashri: No, people would not admit to this openly.
Would a person not immediately become an owner of his body if
someone were to slap him? Even if someone insulted him, would
he not immediately assume ownership and retaliate? Would his
reactions not prove that he becomes the owner? One cannot
accomplish anything by merely saying it. One would have to have
the experience of it.
Questioner: But is it not a sin to travel by car because of
the violence involved?
Dadashri: The world is full of sin. It is only when one ceases
to be the owner of one’s body, that one becomes sinless.
Otherwise as long as a person is the owner of the body, everything
that he does is a sin.
Many life-forms are killed during respiration. And when
we speak we send thousands of life-forms colliding to their deaths.
Even the movement of one’s hand causes death to so many life-
forms. Although they are invisible, they are still being killed. And
therefore it is all sin.
The ownership over one’s body ceases with the realization
of ‘I am not this body’ and one becomes free from all sin. As for
myself, I have not had ownership over this mind, this speech or
this body for the past twenty-six years. There is no responsibility
left, since the ‘ownership documents’ have been destroyed, which
is why I am completely and absolutely non-violent. I perpetually
live as the Self, the ‘home department’. I am absolutely non-violent
in the ocean of violence.
Questioner: Does one become non-violent after taking
this Gnan?
Dadashri: In giving you this Gnan, I have made you Self-
Realized. Now, violence will not touch you provided that you
follow my Agnas (Five cardinal instructions to live by following