Only Man Can Be Violent || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Non-violence, and killing mosquitoes || Acharya Prashant (2019)

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00:00The mosquito is not violent even if it survives only on your blood.

00:03But if you can avoid killing the mosquito and you still kill it, then you are violent.

00:07It's a strange thing. The rules are different.

00:09The most fearsome carnivore is not violent at all.

00:13Man has the option to choose what he wants to eat.

00:16And therefore, only man can be violent or non-violent.

00:20It is the human form that has a choosing consciousness.

00:23The word consciousness itself implies choice.

00:26And such a choice is not relevant to the mosquito or to the lion at all.

00:31And therefore, they are absolved of all guilt.

00:34But man is guilty if man does not choose properly.

00:37To not to choose properly is called violence.