Non Violence

SR No.: 007551
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 61
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 53 KB

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understanding. On the contrary you would happily throw away the cuttings without a second thought. Do you understand this? If you do your work the way I tell you, your liability becomes mine. There is no problem when you throw away the plants, but you should always repent for it.
Questioner: I understand. Compared to the farmers, the businessmen do greater sin, but even more than the businessmen, it is the people who sit at home that commit the greater sin. Sins are committed through the mind and not the body.
Dadashri : You have to understand this fact. It is not necessary for others to understand it. Let them believe what they will; whatever they believe is correct for them. But for your purpose, you have to understand what I am saying.
Questioner: What should we do when we have to spray insecticide on the cotton crop? There is violence in it, is there not?
Dadashri: Any work that is unavoidable must be done with a condition contingent upon doing pratikraman (apology coupled with remorse for any wrongdoing).
You do not know how to conduct yourself in this worldly life, but once I show you the way, you will cease to bind new sin.
If you are a farmer, you are bound to bind sin, because you destroy countless lives when you plough the land and harvest the crops. For this very reason, I am showing you how this sin can be reduced. I am giving you the medicine to wash away your sin and if you use it, you will incur a lesser liability and will be able to enjoy worldly happiness.
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All farmers incur a liability from the violence involved in the nature of their work, which is why every farmer must pray for forgiveness from the Lord and do pratikraman for ten minutes each day for committing such violence.
Merit Karma And Sin Do Not Affect The Self-Realized Questioner: Is it not a sin to use insecticides in farming? Is the manufacturing of insecticides a sin?
Dadashri : Yes it is, because it is made with the intention of killing lives. One buys and uses the insecticide with the intention of killing. So that is all sin.
Questioner: But the motive behind it is to produce better crops.
Dadashri : I know what makes the crops grow; what supports the farmers and their farming. I know and understand the real foundation behind everything that takes place in this world. People do not have this knowledge of the real doer and that is why they assume the doer ship of their acts. They believe that the crops grow because of their efforts and actions. The farmers believe that the crops grow better because they use pesticides. To give support to one's actions with this belief of doer ship is a very grave sin. Once this wrong belief is taken away, there is no support for that action, and therefore no consequences.
Questioner: So then what happens to the individual's independent effort (purushaarth)?
Dadashri : The true definition of purushaarth (highest endeavor) is to observe and know the events that are occurring, nothing else. Furthermore, the thoughts that arise in your mind