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Q.166) 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 Chlorophil. 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.

 

Q.167) When somebody’s child is weak in a subject, you

suggested to serve the God instead of suggesting

meditation etc., Is it not the proper way?

 

Ans) Meditation means concentration, which is a

physical process only within the rules of nature.

Divinity is beyond the nature. You can expect a

divine advice only from Me because My aim is to get

you in touch with God through some context and not to

simply solve your materialistic problem by

materialistic ways. Sometimes, the physical plane is

not sufficient to solve the problem. But the

spiritual plane can certainly solve the problem. But

you should note that the Lord solves your problems in

the initial stage to divert you to the spiritual path.

After entering the spiritual path you should not

touch your materialistic problems because you are

expected to serve the Lord without any fruit in

return. Therefore, you should not continue to solve

your problems using God through out your life, in

which case the main purpose is lost. If you continue

like that, even the solved problems will reappear in a

magnified way. Actually God postpones the bad results

for some time to give you relief so that you will

enter the spiritual path. If you enter the spiritual

path, God will cancel all the bad results in His own

way i.e., He suffers for your sake. But if you are

not entering the spiritual path and continue to

exploit the advantage, the postponed bad results will

reappear in a magnified way since they are compounded

with the interest.

 

gayathry.

 

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