ahimsa don't hit her to harm other himself means to hurt her means no ahimsa means don't
this is how the idea of reverence becomes kind of capsulated in one word ahimsa but
this ahimsa comes with contextual limits let me give an example suppose you know um
suppose you get knits in your hair we hope you don't but suppose you get knits in and it comes
in schools you know you mix up with each other and you borrow the hairbrush and the nits are
yuppie and they jump from one to the other yeah and then they come with their families you know
they come with the bags and they all settle down and they start you know populating no
time there are hundreds of needs you know walking around and having fun there in the forest here
and they grow and they grow and they're falling out on your pillow and they say look you can't
do anything didn't you go to hinduism class they said life is special this is brahman
so let it be you know let them grow and fall out and you know in fact what do you do you say look
that is valuable but you are valuable too so you better knock them out so this is i'm showing the
limits of ahimsa the contextual limitation because we are very very special in fact we
are saying we are most this is what we are saying we are saying more special than a million nits so
knock them out so you put some chemicals and boom they go suppose you get an infection in your lungs
now you're not talking even hundred minutes they're talking billion bacteria dancing having
party in your lungs they're having great time their necks you know growing so fast within a
just 24 hours become billion they're dancing in your lungs and you're coughing and your
problem or serious infection you have to go to the doctor and don't say i know how to
sort them out but you'll have to destroy a lot of brahman you say let's go for it they give
you an antibiotic and one antibiotic not the poor guys who are having a party they're just
nice brahman just trying to make this appearance you knock the hell out of them the whole lot go
now see i'm just showing the contextual limitation but you say well it seems fair
because this human body is very itself is very divine suppose now a question arises suppose
you're walking and some madman comes towards you and he's got a knife and he's going to kill you
and he's he's sat you can see from his eyes he's completely mad he's not going to let you off he's
just going mad he wants to kill you and while you are struggling the knife gets into your hand
and there's only one option now either you kill him or he kills you would you say oh brahman oh
god oh manifested living being come and thump me kill me the hindurian said no
you two are divine if necessary fight back and if necessary to defend yourself you may have to kill
so you say i'm showing the contextual limitation to the idea of reverence for life
we too are special at the same time it doesn't mean that you allow people to walk all over you
be careful and because this is the thing is you may think that because other people are
also sacred that you can they can just walk all over you hinduism is very very practical he says
the teachings of athman and brahman reverence for life come with contextual limitation you can
only do so much and in a way you may say this is because you invent in this law so you can kill the
animals and the bacteria for your own good and you're just making up making it up you
can you can say that but we have made it up but whatever we think human beings are at the top
of the evolutionary chain just like the biologists and they are very very special so the idea of
best worship of god in this non-theistic mode is service to mankind it comes in a very natural way
without a goal imposing it on us it is the most natural mode of living because we are linked with
the rest of mankind it becomes it should become second nature for us to look after each other
second nature not something that's imposed on us because somebody's keeping a record we just can't
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