Life connects lives

Few days back, I was pleasantly surprised to get some soul touching photographs from my son Prodeep, who stays in America. Pictures showed, it was evening time, and near the road side bushes, he was sitting quietly holding the head of an injured deer on his lap. Both of them looked very peaceful,depicting the eternal bond of love between man, nature and animals. Later I came to know that an insensitive driver hit the deer badly and ran away leaving the severely injured deer near the road side. Prodeep was passing through the same road, and seeing that helpless animal, stopped his car, came down and called the rescue team to come immediately, though they took full three hours to appear there. They never saw this sort of scene before, where a wild animal can rest so peacefully on the lap of an unknown person. But this is nothing new. Animals can respond to loving energy very intensely. I also experienced this through my three legged dog Gujia. He was a stray dog and was hit by an insensitive driver. But he was rescued by an organization called 'Red Paws', where his leg was amputated and he was hospitalized for six months, before he came to us. He expresses his gratitude through his eyes, and modulation of voice or body language, which all animal lovers can understand very well. The great Indian Saint Ramana Maharshi could understand the language of birds. Once a bird's nest was removed from the garden by some of his disciples. Next day when the Saint was sitting in that garden, birds started chirping near him and he understood their complaint and asked his disciples to bring back their nest and put it where it was before. Like animals, plants too have their feelings of joy and sorrow. The great scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose invented a measuring tool "Crescograph" to track growth and feelings of plants by magnifying subtle electromagnetic measurements 10,000 times. Today's environmental problems are caused mostly by our ignorance about the lives of animals and planta. A life which we can not create, we have no right to destroy either. Being respectful and kind to all life, we can make this earth more livable and lovable place for all. Mahatma Gandhi said,'to my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being "