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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 3
but even then you will not kill you feel bad about it. I do not expect you to construct a Samadhi to that rat you have killed, surely not, you will feel for it. This devotedness to the Divine increases the quality of your ahimsa also. One of the parameters I would ask you to keep in mind when you say you are devoted to the Divine have you got more of ahimsa or himsa with you. Artha being what it is, being a necessity for a social life, to have a family to support you have got duties to discharge, if that is all the purpose for which you are earning, it will not interfere with your mokshaarthi. If the arthaarthi in you is sufficiently moderated and you feel satisfied with that portion of the income which is capable of maintaining you and your family then I don’t think it will interfere with your moksha. Only when you try to go beyond your limit, when you try to talk in terms of saving concept for you, and savings for a rainy day and you go more towards artha, it means to that extent your devotedness to the Divine is suffering. That is, you are not able to understand that you are a part of the Divine. And divinity will never leave you. My hand is so confident that I will not severe it. My
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