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understand only this much, your work will be done. Who are you to kill the one whose death has been decided even before he is born? Anyone who has made the intent, 'I want to kill a snake', will always be around along with others of the same intent. So all you have to do is shout out loud, "There is a snake in my house", and those people will automatically come running because they have made it their business!
violent; it is really his previously created intent of 'not to kill that is currently at work.
No one saves lives and similarly no one kills either. It is only the coming together of circumstances, such as one's intent (bhaav) of wanting to kill and the timing for the bugs to die. Every creature has its own time to die; no living being can die before its time. If a person or any living being could kill another before its due time, then it can be said that they are killing. But no, that is not the case because no one can kill before the due time of death. Furthermore, only when it is time for a living being to die, will he encounter his 'killer' (nimit). Only when it is time for the bugs to die, will they encounter 'Chandulal'. An unfortunate (akkarmi) one will encounter another unfortunate one who made an unfortunate intent (bhaav) and the fortunate (satkarmi) one will encounter one with a fortunate intent.
Questioner : Yes, but Chandulal becomes the instrument (nimit) in the process of the violence, does he not?
Dadashri : Yes, Chandulal becomes a nimit, but only a nimit. In his past life he had made the intent to kill and hence he becomes instrumental in the process. Insects have a predetermined karmic account as to when they will die even before they are born. This is the case with every living being. It is merely the ego which makes one say, "7 killed, I saved."
The Lord says, "No living being can kill another living being. All one does is killing of one's own soul (bhaav maran)." To say, "I want to kill whatever bugs there are", is bhaav maran. Say there are four snakes in your farm and you want to kill them. You may or may not have the opportunity of killing them; there is no way of telling. The killing may or may not materialize, but from the moment you made the intent to kill, you are killing your own self through your intent. The snakes will die when it is time for them to die. That is why 'we' have said that one's timing of death has been decided even before one is born. If you
An arrow fired by one who has non-violent intent (ahimsak bhaav). will not cause any bleeding but a flower thrown by one with intent to hurt (himsak bhaav), will. The arrow and the flower are not as effective as the intent behind them. Therefore, behind every word of 'ours, there is a constant bhaav of, 'Let no one be hurt; not a single living being be hurt through the speech. This speech comes out constantly with the inner intent of not hurting any living being in the slightest through the mind, body and speech. Objects or things do nothing: the arrow or the flower does not make the impact, but the intent behind them, does. Therefore, every one of you should have such intent. Every morning you should make a firm decision and say five times, "Let not any living being be hurt through my mind, body and speech. " If you do this much with a true inner intent, then the Lord says that even if you do happen to hurt someone, you are not responsible. Why did the Lord say this? Because the Lord knows that it is not your intent to hurt. This is how the world is. On the other hand even though you may not hurt anyone or kill bugs but, if you say, "All bugs that come my way must be killed", then it is same as killing them whole day long. So this is how the world is.
Have compassion for your self only
It is worth understanding the world. The Lord says killing or not killing is not under your control. Not even defecating is under your independent control. When you become constipated, you will realize 'truly it is not under my control.' For just once
