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.
00:33But man is guilty if man does not choose properly.
00:37To not to choose properly is called violence.