00:00Whenever I speak about animal cruelty, people retort by saying that
00:05but even the lion kills the deer.
00:07Quite a revelation.
00:09Because that fellow is equating himself with the animal.
00:13With the predator.
00:14With the predator.
00:16In Prakriti, we all are predators.
00:18Even the deer is a predator.
00:20The fellow is saying, I'm not a conscious being.
00:22I'm an animal being.
00:23I'm just like the lion.
00:24And if the lion can kill, I too can kill.
00:26As long as your identity is that of the physical being, which is the animal being.
00:32You will kill.
00:33Only when you realize that you are not going to be satisfied remaining the animal being.
00:40Will you acknowledge that you are the conscious being beyond the animal?
00:45Then you will say, I will not do what the animal does.
00:48Because doing what the animal does is not going to satisfy me.
00:52What the animal does is for the animal.
00:53I am not the animal, therefore I cannot follow the ways of the animal.
00:57I will do what a suffering consciousness must do.
01:00And a suffering consciousness can hardly kill and expect freedom from suffering.
01:09Howard else can it be?
01:10Secondo says,
