Aarta-dhyana (internal worries) and raudra-dhyana (thoughts or desire to hurt other people) is constantly occurring within human beings. These do not require any effort, they are happening, and because they cause self-violence, they are considered the greatest forms of violence in the world. Violence against insects and life forms is called effect-violence. Which is better?

Questioner: Neither violence is good, but self-violence is worse.

Dadashri: While all these people are cautious about material, effect-violence, self-violence is continually occurring within.. The scriptures say that self-violence is really intent-violence. After acquiring this Gyan, your intent-violence ceases. That is why you experience so much inner peace.

Questioner: Krupadudev has called intent-violence, ‘intent-death' (death of the self), has he not? Krupadudev had asked “From moment to moment, why are you involved in such terrible intent-death?” Is there really intent death in every moment?

Dadashri: Yes, each and every moment there is dreadful intent-death happening. What is he trying to say? Actually, intent-death is taking place not from momemnt to moment, but continuously in the smallest unit of time. He has given a gross description of the frequency of intent-death, which in reality is occurring all the time. The belief ‘I am Chandulal', is intent-death. In any situation, to believe that ‘it is happening to me' , is intent-death. People are immersed in this belief all the time. They say and believe that they are the ones who are fasting and meditating or performing austerities.

Questioner: So instead of intent-death, how can we have intent-life?

Dadashri: Intent is not living; it is non-living. Intent-death is the same as intent-sleep (a state of unawareness of the Real Self.). In Akram Vignan there is no basis for intent death, because intent has been separated from the Self. People in the kramic path are perpetually in a state of intent-death.

Krupadudev, being a Gnani Purush, was the only one who understood intent-death, and hence had to constantly be on the alert because he could see that everyone around him was in a state of intent-death.

What is the meaning of intent-death? It signifies the death of the Self (s and the birth of non-self (the worldly self). In any event or a situation, the sense of ‘I am this or that' is the birth of non-self and ‘I am the observer of this event', is the birth of the Self.

Those who commit violence against the physical bodies may find redemption, but there is no hope for those who commit violence against the self. No one ever explains the subtler facts, only the gross issues.