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Would I incur sin by killing the little insects that disturb me while trying to do dhyaana?

Sri Sri Swamiji:

The question here is not about your incurring sin or not. You should wonder if your harming them would cause them pain.

I confided a problem of mine to a Mahatma. He suggested expiation ('parihaara') for it. However, it did not bear any fruit. The Mahatma suggested another expiation. I did not pay heed to it as I had no faith in it.

Sri Sri Swamiji:

No! You have been wrong in not paying heed to it. A doctor prescribes medicine for a disease. When it fails to bring about the cure the doctor increases the dosage or prescribes a more potent medicine. Likewise, the first prescribed 'parihaara' might not have been potent enough. By carrying out further 'parihaara' it would bear fruit.

How can it be said that the nature's fury and calamities in our country are the result of the decline in the Vedas, devotion to the Lord and Temple worship? Don't such calamities occur in other countries, too?

Sri Sri Swamiji:

Let us say that a man suffers intolerable pain due to some disease; and there is another who is healthy. You whip this healthy man. He writhes in pain and cries out, "Stop whipping me." You at once retort, "Look at that ailing man. Is anyone whipping him? He is also writhing in pain. So, there is no connection between the whipping and the pain you suffer."
How would such an explanation sound?

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