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Before you kill, listen to this || Acharya Prashant
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12/23/2024
Full Video: Non-violence, and killing mosquitoes || Acharya Prashant (2019)
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The lion kills all his life, but he cannot be called violent.
00:04
He cannot be called non-violent either.
00:08
He is just doing what his physical conditioning compels him to do.
00:13
He has no option.
00:15
Man has the option to kill and to not to kill.
00:19
Man has the option to choose what he wants to eat.
00:23
And therefore only man can be violent or non-violent.
00:27
The most fearsome carnivore is not violent at all.
00:32
The mosquito is not violent even if it survives only on your blood.
00:36
But if you can avoid killing the mosquito and you still kill it, then you are violent.
00:41
It is the human form that has a choosing consciousness.
00:45
The word consciousness itself implies choice.
00:48
What is non-violence?
00:49
When you make the right choice, it is called non-violence.
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