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Ahimsa viene siendo uno de los 5 Yamas basicos, y muchos lo entienden como no violencia simplemente.

Encontré un parrafo en inglés bastante claro sobre el punto de vista del Karma Yoga:

In actuality, we cannot live a moment in this world without injuring innumerable beings. Our simple act of breathing kills many tiny organisms, and so does every step we take. To maintain its health the body perpetually wars against harmful germs, bacteria, and viruses. So in the ultimate sense the state of ahimsa can only be perfectly observed mentally. Still, we are obligated to do as little injury as possible in our external life. In his autobiography Paramhansa Yogananda relates that his guru, Swami Yukteswar Giri, said that ahimsa is absence of the desire to injure

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