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The Condition of the Violent One
From the 28th and 29th verses of the second canto of the Yogashastra, and after honoring him with wealth, it was said - 'Now, you must definitely do one task for me. Whoever comes riding an elephant with a parasol and a chowrie, shoot out both his eyes with a slingshot.' The shepherd accepted the Brahmin's words. Because animal-keepers do not act thoughtfully like animals. The shepherd was lying in wait. Just then, the king's procession arrived. The shepherd stood between two walls, took aim, and fired two whizzing bullets, which gouged out both the king's eyes. Truly, the command of the gods is inviolable. Like a hawk catching a crow, the king's soldiers immediately seized that shepherd. After being severely beaten, he revealed the name of the Brahmin who had instigated this unpleasant act. Hearing this, the enraged king said, "Fie on the Brahmin caste! These sinful ones break the very vessels from which they eat. Even a dog is better, for it shows gratitude and devotion to its benefactor upon receiving something. It is never appropriate to give to such ungrateful Brahmins. The cruel, violent, meat-eating Brahmins, who deceive others, should be punished first."
Saying this, the extremely enraged king had that Brahmin, along with his son, friend, and kinsmen, killed like mosquitoes caught in the fist. Thereafter, with eyes blinded and heart blinded by anger, that emperor eliminated all the innocent Brahmins, including the priests. Then he ordered the minister, "Kill Brahmins daily and present before me the plate filled with the eyes of those injured Brahmins."
Knowing the king's fierce determination, the wise minister would daily fill a plate with the seeds of the lassora fruit and present it before the king, saying, "This plate is filled with the eyes of the Brahmins." Hearing this, the king would pounce on the so-called eyes kept in the plate and knead them repeatedly with both hands. Now, Brahmadatta did not derive as much pleasure from the touch of the jewel-like woman Pushpavati as he did from the touch of those so-called eyes in the plate. Just as a drunkard does not leave the cup of liquor, similarly, Brahmadatta never kept that plate, the cause of his downfall, away from his sight. The blind Brahmadatta would daily, like phlegm, crush the large lassora fruits, thinking them to be the eyes of the Brahmins, as if cultivating the seedling of the tree of sin facing him. Due to the continuous perpetration of this cruel act, the intensity of his malevolent meditation increased day by day. "Whether the karmic bond is auspicious or inauspicious, it only grows larger with each day's contemplation of it." By this principle, Brahmadatta, the emperor, trapped in the mire of sin like a pig, spent sixteen years binding karma through the continuum of his malevolent meditation. Thus, having completed a total lifespan of seven hundred and sixteen years, in accordance with the fruit of his violent conduct, Brahmadatta became a guest of the seventh hell.
They criticize the one who commits violence. A lame, crippled, or deformed person is better, even if he has a complete body, than one who is devoted to violence.
The violence done even for the sake of removing an obstacle is itself an obstacle. And the violence done out of family tradition is also destructive to the family.