Non Violence

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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are your 'files' (Dadashri's word for anything or anyone that you have a karmic account with). These too, you must simply observe and not interfere with.
Questioner: Then should one farm or not?
Dadashri : There is nothing wrong in farming. Questioner: What about the liability of sin in farming? Dadashri: After Self-Realization (The awareness of your Real Self which Dadashri imparts in The Gnan Vidhi), sin does not touch you. You are Pure Soul; you are no longer 'Chandubhai' (The reader should substitute his or her own name). As long as you believe that you are Chandubhai, you will bind sin. Do you believe that you are Chandubhai?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri : So then how can sin touch you? There is no more charging of karma. Whatever farming you have to do, is your 'file', which you have to deal with, with equanimity.
And if you continuously maintain the awareness of 'I am Pure Soul', as I have given you, then no amount of insecticide you use will cause you to bind demerit karma. This is because 'You' are Pure Soul and 'Chandubhai' is the one spraying the insecticide. If you feel sympathy or remorse, then you become Chandubhai.
Questioner : Is there binding of karma in making, selling, buying or using insecticides?
Dadashri : No. When the manufacturers of insecticides ask me what will happen to them, I tell them that nothing will happen to them, as long as they follow my instructions.
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Questioner: So does that mean that as long as a person says, 'I am Pure Soul' he can continue to do violence?
Dadashri : It is not a question of doing violence. There is no violence in 'I am Pure Soul'. There is no 'doer-ship' or anything to be done in the state of the Pure Soul.
Questioner: So from the worldly perspective of one's general conduct or behavior, is it not considered a wrongful deed?
Dadashri From the worldly perspective it is sin. However it only becomes a sin when one becomes 'Chandubhai'. After this Gnan, you are no longer Chandubhai. You have become the Pure Soul and you have constant awareness of it. This awareness is called shukla dhyan (pure meditation) and to have the awareness of 'I am Chandubhai' is ahankari dhyan (egotistical meditation).
So many people have taken this Gnan, but never once do they misuse it. On the contrary they ask me whether they should stop or change their occupation. I tell them that if it happens naturally then they may do so, otherwise they should continue with it.
Occupations Involving Violence
Questioner: My friend does not understand why it is wrong to manufacture pesticides when such an occupation falls upon a person as a result of his past karmas. How can the butcher be blamed for selling meat when he is only doing what his karma dictates? He is paying his dues according to his karmas.
Dadashri : Yes and your friend would continue to presume