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00:00It is said that human beings get bad results and punishment if they enter into bad actions.
00:18But nothing of this sort is said for animals.
00:27Why does the law of karma not apply to animals?
00:42The law of karma does not apply to animals because animals do not really have a choice
00:50in their actions.
00:54And when there is no choice there is no question of reward or punishment.
01:00Human beings are in a peculiar situation.
01:07They can choose to side with their animalistic conditioning or they can choose something higher.
01:20They can choose freedom, joy, love, liberation, compassion.
01:28Therefore, humans have a responsibility.
01:36Animals don't have that responsibility.
01:41Animals are dictated fully by their biological conditioning.
01:50If there is a road accident here on the road outside.
02:09You do not really expect the street dogs to come to rescue and help the victims of the
02:21accident.
02:22Do you?
02:27They are not supposed to.
02:30So you will not get angry at the dogs when they do not come to help the injured ones.
02:42A couple of bike riders have met an accident and they are lying on the road.
02:53And then there are birds on the trees and there are dogs roaming about.
03:07They will not take any special interest.
03:10There are so many insects around.
03:12Some snake is there in the bush, right?
03:26They do not really care for these two creatures who are lying bleeding on the road.
03:38And they do not care and they will not attract any punishment.
03:42Because they are not supposed to.
03:45They just do not have the option to act in compassion.
03:53No animal can be compassionate really.
03:57Because an animal is completely just prakrati.
04:08Animal really does not have the option to be a liberated consciousness.
04:18The animal's consciousness is completely dominated by its physical conditioning.
04:24Are you getting it?
04:27Therefore the animal gets neither reward nor punishment.
04:34Which is comfortable in a sense because the animal lives in a secure zone.
04:49A dog is born a dog, lives as a dog and dies as a dog.
04:54And no dog lives in a state of consciousness that is very different from that of another dog.
05:06Are you getting it?
05:10You cannot say one dog is liberated and the other dog is not.
05:14You cannot say one dog is joyful and compassionate and the other dog is not.
05:21Dogs can have varying external situations but internally all dogs are just dogs.
05:31This is not the case with human beings.
05:35Human beings can vary greatly in their internal states.
05:45One human being can be full of compassion and the other one can be spiteful, angry, vicious and violent.
06:00You are getting it?
06:02You are getting it?
06:06Therefore the one who is compassionate is rewarded.
06:11He made the right choice.
06:12He made the right choice.
06:14The one who is vicious is punished by his viciousness itself.
06:21He made the wrong choice.
06:25So there is this great difference between animals and human beings.
06:29Which also means that human beings must never justify their actions by taking examples of animals.
06:42For example, if you eat animal flesh, you cannot justify it by saying that a lion or a wolf too kills other animals to eat.
06:59A lion or a wolf has no option to not to kill.
07:06You have that option.
07:11Man is not necessarily a herbivore.
07:16Man is more of an omnivore.
07:18Therefore that option is there.
07:20You could have decided not to kill but you chose in favour of killing therefore you will be punished.
07:28A lion is never punished because the lion had no option.
07:37A lion has done nothing wrong.
07:42In fact even if a lion kills a human being, really it has not committed a crime.
07:52That's how lions are.
07:53They are supposed to kill to eat.
07:58But if a man needlessly kills an animal, then the man will be punished.
08:07If not by law, then by existence.
08:12So that is a human being in the most clear terms.
08:26A human being is a decision maker.
08:28A human being is someone who has a choice.
08:31How do you define a human being?
08:36He is someone who has a choice.
08:41And how you exercise these choices decides your life.
08:48Choose very, very carefully.
08:51Right?
08:53or an elephant.
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09:05or another life.
09:06A human being, really asениюs.
09:11For destruction, yes.
09:13For destruction, yes.
09:16For destruction, yes.

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