अहिंसा
Harmlessness
Live your life without hurting anybody.
Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal.
This is what I call Nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga.
It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love.
The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom.
It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will over it,
no matter how well intentioned our will may be.
Befriending life is more about harmlessness than it is about control.
Rachel Naomi Remen
In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief,
we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self,
and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others
such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.
This is the quintessence of wisdom; not to kill anything.
All breathing, existing, living sentient creatures should not be slain,
nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
This is the pure unchangeable Law. Therefore, cease to injure living things.
Yogashastra (c. 500 B.C.)
Ask yourself this — what state of mind must a person be in?
How far from human and how much like a demon walking the earth
in human form must someone be in for them to kill children
as they attend school, young adults in college classrooms,
men and women as they go about their lives at work and play,
or out shopping, or driving or simply at home attending to their loved ones.
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