What goes around, comes around
Recently 50 dogs were poisoned and burnt alive in Keezhampur village of Kancheepuram, in Tamilnadu. Charred carcases were found in the village, spreading the stench across the village. Many crows, birds and cats died later due to feeding on these poisoned carcases. The atrocities on animals are increasing manifold in all possible ways.
Some people feel that killing animals is not a sin since they don’t have souls. The reason behind this vague belief is that the weight of animals remains same before and after death whereas there is always a difference in the weight of a person before and after the soul departs. People consider it as weight of the soul, but it is the weight of karma.
To this effect in 1901, an experiment was conducted in Massachusetts by Dr. Duncan MacDougall over six dying patients who were placed on specially made weight scales just prior to their deaths. His intention was to weigh each body before and after death to determine any differences measured by the delicate scales.
The patients were selected based upon their imminent death. Once the patient died, a sudden loss of three-fourths of an ounce was noted. Everything was taken into account, from the air in the lungs to bodily fluids, yet they were unable to explain the reason behind the sudden weight loss. They concluded it is the weight of soul…but soul has no weight, it is in fact the weight of karma which we carry forward lifetime after lifetime.
The weight in animals remains same even after death because they are not bound by karma amd their progression is natural. We must remember that humans progress or regress depending upon their karmas. If we don’t become the voice of these voiceless animals, hurting or harming them then we are proceeding towards hell where we would also have to undergo similar kind of pains.
In the Mahabharata, after the Kurukshetra war, Dhritrarashtra asked Krishna the reason why all of his hundred sons got killed in the war. To which Krishna replied that fifty lifetimes ago, he was a hunter. While hunting, he tried to shoot a male bird, but it flew away. In anger, he ruthlessly slaughtered the hundred baby birds that were there in the nest.
The father-bird had to watch in helpless agony. Simply because he caused that father-bird the pain of seeing the death of his hundreds sons, he too had to bear the pain of his hundred sons dying.
Yogi Ashwini says that ‘Law of karma is universal. It bounces back’.
