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DEVOTION
consciousness has grown. If you kill it without any compassion then I think you have not really grown at all. You are self centered. The killing might still be there. The scorpion might be killed by you .But that hurt of the scorpion will also be hurting you is what I want you to appreciate. There is a vibration from you which responds to that, it almost says that I am dying. You also feel so. That is why as we grow further in the path we find that something is not a very desirable element there push it aside or just go away from that nobody tries to kill that he may kill. Even when he kills he knows he is hurting himself. This is what a sensitive feeling which I have personally experienced therefore I am telling you this. Suppose you are going to kill a rat in house, my mind will not accept it, my heart will not accept it. The reason for that is the expansion of consciousness. And you come to know that you are devoted to him and that’s also devoted to him. It is performing its duty. I am performing my duty. I have no business to interfere with his duty. This is profound understanding in the Ahimsa. Think that we have to get to it, practicalities may be different,
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