It seems contradictory that Kashiram, a devotee who fed ants, would then violently kill two men. How is this behavior justified?

The text in Chapter 0 describes a violent encounter without offering a moral justification, focusing instead on the sequence of events. While returning from a market, Kashiram was attacked by Bhil robbers. They tried to take a small bundle that was very dear to him because it contained powdered sugar for feeding ants, an act of piety he undertook on the advice of Janakidas Baba. When the thieves reached for this specific bundle, a confrontation ensued. One of the thieves dropped a sword, which Kashiram then picked up and used to kill two of his attackers before being struck down himself. The passage presents this as a desperate act of self-defense centered on protecting an object he held sacred due to his devotional practices.