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created this difference? Did it do it purposefully or did it happen naturally?
Dadashri: No, there is no difference whatsoever. Whatever one perceives is just one's own wrong belief. It is like a man who reads a book during the daytime, and comes across a passage about ghosts, and when he is alone at night and he goes into his room to sleep, as soon as he hears the mice rattle a cup in the other room, he gets shaken up right away! Now from the time the ghost entered his mind, it will carry on affecting him unless it leaves altogether.
Questioner: Even within this entire universe, there exist differences among every living being (jiva).
Dadashri: There are no differences in any living being. All living beings are one by nature. The differences only exist through one's drashti bhed (different perception). And these differences are governed by Nature. Moreover, the differences are external; they are differences in the clothing but not at the main level within.
Questioner: There is a difference in behavior. In the way Cows, goats, buffaloes are all vegetarian, and lions and tigers are carnivores. Who created these differences? Why are there differences? Is it because the embodied soul (jiva) is different? Is it because their physical bodies are different? Or is it a worldly difference? Is it because of their different life-form (jiva), that there is a difference in the way they live?
Dadashri: No. It is not like that. Listen to what I am going to say! There are so many casts and communities, but they do not all eat meat, do they? So if they had to go into the animal realm, where would they go? They would go into communities where there is no eating flesh. It means they would go into noncarnivorous species such as cows and buffaloes. Whereas meateating kings, aristocrats and such, will all go to the animal realm. And where do you think they go? They do not become cows
| SR No. | 030038 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 08 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dada Bhagwan |
| Publisher | Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 436 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 1 MB |