Morality Of Killing

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Killing is sin and it is immoral. What I want to kill is not existing because of my action But because of my inaction.

When there is the first cockroach in the house I must have handled that properly Either by throwing or killing But my morality of non-violence didn’t allow that to happen.

Now, the whole family of cockroach has grown in my house What will I do now? Massacre! Which was better? Nipping when it was bud or doing massacre now?

But why I need to do a massacre? Either because of my lethargy or because of morality principle or because I thought it is too small to fight with.

I cannot remain in a house or in a society Without eliminating the weeds If I don’t do it someone else has to do that If no one does that then The whole field become full of weeds and I cannot grow anything useful in that field.

So the principle of absolute non-violence Will make my house dirty, full of mosquito, cockroach, spiders, ants, etc. I cannot live in that house any longer.

But if I keep my house clean then Every day I have to do a little violence And I can avoid a massacre of once in a month or a year.

Daily cleaning or massacre Are the only two option to survive even in your own house. The question is who will do this? Either you do it yourself or some of your family members does it Or you outsource this to somebody.

But we need to understand one thing One who is doing cleaning this work is favoring you You cannot claim yourself a great disciple of Mahatma Gandhi or Mahatma Buddha or Mahavira Jain And say, Ahimsa Parmodharmah (Non-violence is the absolute principle) Nor you have the right to abuse or downgrade the cleaner.

The same logic can be extended to a society When you because lazy, careless or try to become the epitome of non-violence Then you cause more harm to a society You need to be cautious and from time to time clean the society from unhealthy ideas, thoughts, dogmas, hypocrisies, hardcore ideologies, thought of dominance. To keep the society alive and vibrant either the forces (police, military, etc) need to work Or you need to work. So that weeds can be kept out.

In a democratic society, it is expected that We remain awake all the time And kill the unhealthy ideas when they are bud Or outsource this work to forces But if no one does this then Your own home will become a shelter for terrorist, antisocial elements, anti-national, Lawless, and Adharmic people.

The principle of non-violence applies to friendly elements And it is not absolute You cannot apply to terrorist, anti-national, robbers It simply means do not allow weeds to grow around.

O Pratibimba, do you think it is easy to identify which ideas should be killed? If a house will belong to snakes then ideas of Human has to be killed And if the house belongs to human then ideas of snakes have to be killed.

But in a democratic society who decides who snake and who is human? One who spills venom is a snake!

Venom doesn’t kill the snake. But others suffer from it. We know snakes and humans both are suffering in society. You decide who is a snake and who is human. And then take action to clean your house So that you need not see Mahabharat before your eyes.

Hari Om Tat Sat Yours Truly Hari