Light of Nonviolence

Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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to see if anyone noticed. The owl went through the whole experience and got away with a fortune in jewellery, money and even furniture. Then, the owl began to laugh and threw all the stolen goods away in the woods since he had no use for them. I thought that the owl knows something that many that many humans never learn.
The second night, I dreamed that I went back to the same place in the woods and waited for the owl. He came and started to talk about a different subject. He said that you cannot expect to find happiness if you put desire and the objects of worldly desire before the life-force. Without the reality of life-force, there is no possibility of desire. Some people like Romeo and Juliett, have desired sexual love so much that when they could not have it, they killed themselves. This is foolish and very bad for your karmic body. I have a great faith for animals of all kinds and they are very similar to humans at a natural level of being. Some animals have great physical skills while others appear to actually know more than we do about certain things. Yet I was still amazed that the owl in my dream knew so much about human beings and their relationships. Was this merely my subconsciousness mind at work or what?
On the third night I got an answer of sorts to my question. I did not hear the owl as I went to sleep but I still dreamed about him. The owl himself went into a deep trance state and his clairvoyant system of consciousness saw everything around him. In fact, since I had already communicated with
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