Non Violence

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

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how to donate fear. No one has learnt how to donate protection from fear.
Questioner : Is it not considered protecting life from fear to make efforts to save these life forms?
Dadashri : There is a tremendous liability for anyone that does this, because to do this is nothing but egoism. The Lord has only said that one should practice kindness towards one's own self. The scriptures mention just this much and no other form of kindness. And if you take on the task of practicing any other forms of kindness unnecessarily, you will incur a liability.
That is the egoism of Saving Lives
People who eat meat do not use their ego in claiming that they do the killing, whereas these people, who make the false declaration of saving lives, are the most egotistical of all. They brag and flaunt their ability to save lives by saying, 'we are saving cows and goats'. If you are really saving life, why not save the life of your ninety five year old father at home? Is anyone able to do that?
Question: No, no one can do that.
Dadashri : It is not under anyone's control; so then why do they boast about saving lives? Not even the butcher has any independent power to take a life; moreover there is no human being who has any such independent power. The butcher who brags about the number of animals he has slaughtered is guilty of egoism. Likewise the person, who states that he has saved so many cows, is also guilty of egoism. What then is the reality? According to nature neither the one taking lives, nor the one saving lives, will attain liberation because they are both guilty of egoism (doer ship). This may be acceptable in the relative world, but not in reality.
Two Types Of Egos
People here believe that lives are saved because of their efforts. Let me tell you what our people are like. At home they abuse and curse their mothers and outside they go about trying to save the life of an insect. What kind of people are these anyway?
These people should be sent into the ocean! What would people of such negative intellect do there when every life in the ocean is either a prey or a predator? The smaller fish are prey to the bigger fish, which in turn are prey to even bigger ones. Such is the food chain in the ocean. Now how would they use their intellect in such an environment? Who will they save?
People believe they are saving lives by advocating vegetarianism, but in the process they feel hatred towards the butchers. If the butcher were asked why he chose such an ignoble profession, he would say that his profession is his heritage and on the contrary he would question why you were belittling it, and would brand you as lacking intelligence.
According to the laws of liberation The Lord has given us, egotistical people cannot attain liberation. Some people have an ego about not drinking alcohol and some have an ego about drinking it. Neither will achieve liberation.
People who boast about not drinking alcohol are more egoistic than those who drink it. The latter at least, admit to their weakness. They will confess to being unworthy when they are drunk and immediately come to their senses when someone throws a bucket of water on them. The same is not applicable for those intoxicated with the illusion of this world. Their