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This morning, I read a wonderful book by Ramana Maharshi on how to “see the Self in everything”.
This evening, I used that book to kill a mosquito.
Some would say this is bad karma, a sin.
But as Maharshi suggested, I saw myself in said mosquito and decided that if I were a mosquito, I would want human me to murder mosquito me in order to free myself from the vampiric lifestyle of mosquitohood, and give myself a chance to reincarnate into a higher being.
If killing mosquitoes is bad karma, but the mosquito I killed now gets to reincarnate into a higher form of life, haven’t I actually done a good deed? Haven’t I given the mosquito a better life?!
Perhaps killing always results in bad karma.
But the mosquito I killed was going to go on biting innocent people and animals, viciously spreading disease.
Wouldn’t it only be right to take on the bad karma myself, kill the mosquito, single-bookedly save people from a disease they now will never have, and prevent them from being forced to face this same dilemma?!
I slept through Sunday school, but I’m pretty sure Jesus died for our sins… NOT the sins of mosquitos!
If Ramana Maharshi somehow knew that years after his death, I would use his book to kill a mosquito, would he still publish it? If so, would he take on bad karma? Would he be responsible for the bad karma from my mosquito murder?
If only he were alive to ask…
But he’s not, so for now I accept any bad karma that comes my way as I protect all my other selves by moving us closer to a malaria-free world, one mosquito murder at a time.
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