Nonviolence - spirituality

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Q) Even fish eats some creatures and so there is no sin if I eat the fish. Even

plants have life. Tsunami killed even innocent children. Can you analyze these

points?

 

Ans) A goat is a pure vegetarian but you are eating that goat also. When you

find a human being, who is a murderer, will you kill him directly or hand over

him to the court? Assuming that the fish is also a murderer, you cannot kill it

directly. God will punish it. In the case of the fish, you need not file a case

against the fish in the court of the God, because there is no need of such

filing in the case of God. Moreover you are raising your voice against the

hanging of a murderer stating "If you cannot give life, you have no right to

take it away". You are also pleading that hanging is the most barbaric deed and

that several countries have banned it. Your statement applies to the fish also,

which is a murderer of the creatures. Life is common in the human being as well

as the fish. Both are living beings. If you don’t have right to take away the

life of a human being, you have also no right to take the life of the fish also.

The Dharma Shastras say that non-voilence is the highest

justice (Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah). If you say that the fish kills the creatures

for food and that there is no sin, there should not be sin if cornivorous

hunters from forest enter the city and start eating the human beings. You should

not object their food also, but you will kill them because your fellow human

beings are killed. If you broaden your heart and see the fish as your fellow

living being, you are practicing the highest form of justice, which pleases the

Lord. You cannot compare the plants with animals and birds. Even in the case of

plants, the green plants should not be cut.

 

Plucking leaves and fruits is not killing. The crops are cut only when they die

after loosing the sign of the life, which is the Green Chlorophyll. In plants

life exists but mind and intelligence do not exist.

 

Life is called as Pranamaya Kosa. Mind is Manomaya Kosa. Intelligence is

Vijnanamaya Kosa. The life is only inert mechanism of exchange process of Oxygen

and Carbondioxide and release of energy by oxidation. This mechanism has no

awareness of the pain. The mind is represented by the nervous system, which is

not present in the plants. The mind may be in very very primitive stage in

plants as per the research of Mr. Bose. The ancient Indian sages avoided even

plucking the leaves and fruits. They ate leaves and fruits when they have fallen

from the plants (Swayam Viseerna Dhruva Patra Vruttita). They avoided this trace

of sin also. In plucking the leaf and killing an animal, the sin is

qualitatively equal, but there is a lot of quantitative difference. One percent

sin and hundred percent sin cannot be equated. Your argument concludes that if

one does one percent sin, why not hundred percent sin be done? This equates to

your statement that if one plucks a leaf why not we kill an animal.

Are you pained equally if I steal one rupee or one lakh rupees from your

pocket. The trace of sin can always be neglected. The Lord came as Bhuddha and

preached this non-voilence. Veda also says that one should kill his animal

nature in the sacrifice and not the animal (Manyuh Pasuh).

 

As you think, children are not innocent. The child of a demon has the devil

characteristics in the form of seeds. The soul in a child has just entered the

earth after a long punishment in the hell. The strength of the sinful attitude

(Samskara) is very much reduced but did not vanish completely. A thief when

released from a police station after a long torture has the attitude of stealing

in very much reduced state. The attitude did not disappear. When he comes out

and enters a suitable encouraging atmosphere, this seed grows as a tree and he

is caught by the police again for his theft. Similarly when the child grows,

again the grown up person does the same sin and at the end goes to the hell.

This is the cycle of deeds (Karma Chakra). When a child is taken away by God, it

is something like arresting the thief immediately after his release. This

prevents the thief to steal again. He must be considered lucky.

 

The child may get a better birth. The angle of sympathy comes since you are not

aware of the soul in the body of the child. The body is like a shirt and the

death is only destruction of the shirt. Gita emphasizes about this aspect in the

beginning itself. The plans of the Lord are not known to us. He may give a

better shirt in a better place and protect the soul. We see a brief part of the

film and conclude.

 

Only complete and thorough spiritual knowledge can remove all the doubts.

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