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Non-Violence
Self-Realization in order to maintain the liberated state). If you
make a strong decision to follow my Agnas, you will reap
tremendous benefits. This will lead to final enlightenment. How
can violence touch someone who is non-violent?
Questioner: Violence does not affect those who experience
the Nine Kalams (Dada’s prayer of nine principles) in their
everyday lives.
Dadashri: Violence does affect them, but if they recite the
Nine Kalams, the violence that they have done up until this moment,
is erased. However, if a person follows the five Agnas, violence
does not touch him at all. When he abides by my Agnas, he is
completely separate from the physical body, even while immersed
in the ocean of violence. The body, because it is solid matter
becomes an instrument of hurt for many life-forms. Even a single
movement of one’s hand destroys so many life-forms, whereas
the Soul, which is extremely subtle, cannot harm any living being.
In my books it is written that although I live in the ‘ocean of
violence’, I am completely non-violent. There is no violence in my
mind. At certain times my speech is a little harsh and therefore
violent, but then speech is merely a ‘tape-record playing’. Although
I am not the owner of this speech, but because the ‘tape-record’
is ‘mine’, I am at fault to an extent and for this I do pratikraman.
Questioner: Through the medium of your non-violent
words, we all mahatmas (Dadashri’s Self-realized followers) are
becoming non-violent.
Dadashri: You are non-violent if you follow my Agnas. If
you find this too difficult, tell me so, so that I can change them for
you.
The Keval Gnani (The Fully Enlightened Being)
Manifests Where There Is Absolute Non-Violence
The highest religion is the one where a person is able to
acquire the knowledge of the subtlest understanding of non-