Is it right to kill large quantity of grass to cultivate one plant or grain?
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So sometimes if we want to cultivate some trees or cultivate crops at that time to grow one thing we may have to pluck a lot of grasses so if we are killing say destroying 100 grasses to to say have one plant or something like that. So is it that we should be concerned only about some plants and not others. So there are two different things over here.
Within the plant also they decide that there are sattvic, rajasic and tamasic plants. So sattvic plants are to, sattva guna is basically, the tama guna is sattva guna means you know we share whatever we have we share raja guna means you know I first whatever there I want the best part I want the first part and tama guna means I only, everyone else will be destroyed I will take everything. It’s like that.
So that is the broad understanding of the modes where there is higher modes means lesser selfishness I also want things but let’s all share equally. So now if you look at trees, some trees they just give a lot. Big plants and big trees if you see there are so many ways in which they are giving and they give fruits and they offer shade and they offer houses for birds they are giving in so many ways but there are some plants which just don’t give anything you know just occupy space and especially weeds you know weeds just occupy space and weeds don’t contribute anything to anything.
So they are just spreading wildly and consuming the space so in that sense those plants which simply take and don’t give they are considered tamasic they are considered a lower level those which give, those which contribute they are considered sattvic and in some cases killing the tamasic vegetation for cultivating sattvic vegetation is acceptable because ultimately it’s an ecosystem in which everyone has to contribute so something is taking more than what it is giving then the cutting that is enough. And quite often we see these kinds of things which we say for weeds and grasses, they also don’t need any cultivation, they just grow automatically as soon as they are killed, others will grow and as far as killing one soul for 100 souls is concerned, we have to see that basically it’s not just like our purpose is not primarily to kill our purpose is to cultivate land so that it can be used properly for various constructive purposes ultimately for the service of the lord so whatever is favourable for that we do that is it clear?