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because there will be a shortage of grain if we do not.” Those that preach in this way, commit a greater fault (dosh). The poor butchers are just doing it to 'feed their bellies' (provide for their family). And what about the 'goats'(!) these zealots of the religion of ahimsa (non-violence) kill? What are they killing for?
Questioner: I did not understand that.
Dadashri: These butchers who kill goats are better! They kill the animal with a single clean (halaal) cut, but they do not torture it. Whereas these people inflict a slow torture. If they lend you five hundred rupees, in twelve months, four hundred of it alone will be the interest! And again, they kill you with their intellect (buddhi); they do not need a handgun. If a customer ventures into a fabric shop, he will be enticed by, “This is a high quality fabric, just newly imported from Allahabad.”, so - being as naive and gullible as he is – he ends up buying it. The shopkeepers recognize that the customer is not very astute, so they take advantage of him. So they shoot him with their 'bullet of intellect (buddhi). This is considered tremendous raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and others)
What is going to become of them? These businessmen (sheths) use such far out tactics that all the farmers in the district bring their money home to them. They charge interest upon interest upon interest, so the poor farmers who are laboring so hard to pay off, the exorbitant interest, are reduced to corpses; whereas the sheths, strut around with their corpulent 150kg bodies! But when the time changes, that very body will be reduced to chutney (crushed condiments)! Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra said that, those who eat to increase their body flesh are all flesh eaters. Food is meant for survival. But instead, it bloats up here and plumps up there, until it is a fat tub!
Questioner: So the one who encourages and instigates (anumodana) others is at greater fault?
