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Question 33
What is
the harm in killing an animal? Because, when you pick a fruit,
you’re also killing it. By picking the fruit, the plant becomes
handicapped. Doesn’t the plant suffer pain? So, this is pain and
that is pain. So, what’s the difference? (05.01.2003)
Baba has said something about this.
You must know by now that I tell you right away any of Baba’s
answers to questions already posed. Those questions where the
answers are left to my imagination, I openly confess. There’s no
hypocrisy or duplicity here. I do not claim to be an intellectual,
certainly not! I don’t even want to be one. I can only repeat what
our good Lord has said.
So, what did He say about this?
Plants don’t have the same kind of emotions or feelings as animals
do. Although Jagadish Chandra Bose in his experiments with plant
physiology demonstrated that plants do have feelings and
emotions -- at least we can agree on this -- they do not
have as many feelings as animals do.
Animals also have feelings and
sentiments, although not as many as man. This means that
consciousness will find its expression more and more in man as
compared with the lower forms of creation. Mineral matter also has
consciousness, expressed at the lowest ebb. The plant world has
consciousness at a higher level, the animal world at a superior
level, and the human race at its maximum. So, it is all relative.
Therefore, you cannot say, “What is
the difference, after all, if I pick a flower or a fruit, or kill
an animal?”
You cannot equate them like that.
There is a wide gulf of difference because the level at which
consciousness expresses itself differs in the course of evolution
from low to high. That’s what I can tell you on this subject.
© Anil Kumar Kamaraju 2004 - Here
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