Non Violence

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

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Ahimsa
Ahimsa
intent-violence. After acquiring this Gnan, your intent-violence ceases. That is why you experience so much inner peace.
What is the meaning of intent-death? It signifies the death of the Self, and the birth of non-self (the worldly self). In any event or a situation, the sense of 'I am this or that is the birth of non-self and 'I am the observer of this event', is the birth of the Self.
Questioner : Krupaludev has called intent-violence (bhaav himsa), 'intent-death' (bhaav maran - death of the self), has he not? Krupaludev had asked. "From moment to moment. why are you involved in such terrible intent-death?" Is there really intent death in every moment?
Those who commit violence against the physical bodies may find redemption, but there is no hope for those who commit violence against the self. No one ever explains the subtler facts, only the gross issues.
Ahimsa Increases Intellect
Dadashri : Yes, each and every moment dreadful intentdeath is occurring. What is he trying to say by this? Actually, intent-death is taking place not from moment to moment, but continuously in the smallest unit of time. He has given a gross description of the frequency of intent-death, which in reality is occurring all the time. The belief 'I am Chandulal', is intentdeath. In any situation, to believe it is happening to me, is intent-death. People are immersed in this belief all the time.
They say and believe that they are the ones who are fasting and meditating or practicing austerities.
Everyone including Muslims, Christians and Hindus are in aarta-dhyan (adverse internal meditation) and raudra-dhyan (adverse internal and external meditation). What is the difference amongst them? Indians experience more of these adverse meditations because they practice non-violence against life forms at various levels. This is because their intellect increases with such practice. In this era, increase in intellect increases sin and sinful binding of karma. People with increased intellect take advantage of those with lesser intellect and that is violence.
Questioner: So instead of intent-death, how can we have intent-life?
Dadashri : Intent is not living; it is non-living. Intentdeath is the same as intent-sleep (a state of unawareness of the Real Self.). In Akram Vignan there is no basis for intent (bhaav) and therefore there is no intent-death taking place, because intent has been separated from the Self. People in the kramic path are perpetually in a state of intent-death.
People of other countries do not use their intellect to hurt others, whereas people of India do. It is only in this time-cycle that such a nuisance has arisen. Intellect is required to hurt. Who are the people with such intellect? They are the people who practice non-violence, those who do not eat edible roots and those who worship the Tirthankars. But what good is such an intellect?
Questioner : You are doing injustice to these people.
Dadashri : I do them no injustice. It is this increased intellect that harms them and I have written this in my book. If
Krupaludev, being a Gnani Purush, was the only one who understood intent-death, and hence had to constantly be on the alert because he could see that everyone around him was in a state of intent-death.