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[15] On The Path of Cause Ahimsa
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by your conviction that you would rather be doing something
other than this. Before, when you were not aware of all this, you
would not have been so reluctant to throw away the poor plants.
Do you understand all that? If you follow My advice, the
responsibility becomes Mine. I am taking on the responsibility
for you. You can cast the plant aside but, at the same time, you
should feel a deep repentance.
Questioner: I understand that now. These businessmen
create greater demerit karma as compared to the farmer. And
greater demerit karma than the businessmen cause, is caused by
people sitting at home doing nothing. Demerit karma is caused
through the mind and not the body.
Dadashri: You have to understand the facts. Others do
not need to. You have to understand everything that is applicable
to you. Whatever others understand is fine by their standards.
Questioner: What should I do about the pesticides used
when spraying the crop? There is (himsa) violence in it, right?
Dadashri: When you have no choice, do whatever you
have to but with a promise of doing pratikraman.
You do not know how to proceed with this worldly life.
‘We’ teach you all that, so that you do not bind new demerit
karma (paap).
You are bound to bind demerit karma when you are farming
but at the same time, ‘we’ give you the ‘medicine’ of what you
should say so that the demerit karma decreases. ‘We’ give you
the medicine to wash off the demerit karma. Does one not need
the medicine? When you go to the farm and plough the fields,
many insects die and you bind demerit karma. When you cut
down sugarcane, is that not a demerit karma? Are they not
living, embodied souls? But ‘we’ explain to you what you should
do about that, so that you incur less karmic liability and enjoy
your worldly comforts peacefully.