What I am going to say in this biographical article, might be offensive for many and degrading for few. But honestly I have to share it here, which would be probably better understood by friends who have actually experienced it personally. Still I would like to request you all to read this once and then take your decision as it ends.
There are two kinds of SPRITITUAL MASTERS in this world.
One, who have been here amongst us in physical forms as prophets constantly trying to give us the divine message of The ALMIGHTY through their magical words. We all love, respect and worship them deeply and they are always there with us as an essential part of our life throughout. We all bow down to them in our own accepted styles and seek their blessings with the each new Sunrise. The difference might be of origin, colour & religion but their message remains the same considering everyone as the equal children of The One Almighty living on this planet together.
But there are these second kind of SPIRITUAL MASTERS who are not here with us in the human forms. Who don’t speak a word at all in the language we understand and most importantly who can easily be brought into our personal homes by either buying them from the market or adopting as per our wish.
The words may sound illogical and insane to many. But for the friends who know the secret, these words are all true referring to our Beloved Pet Dogs who spend their entire limited life-span with us in our homes loving all the members of the house equally and then walk away quietly teaching some hugely precious lessons of life which cannot be taught by any Spiritual Master, Meditation Technique or A Divine Scripture ever.
So, these are the second kind of SPIRITUAL MASTERS existing around us, who are easily available in the market or on the roads, to put us onto the path of enlightenment through their divine passage of “Unconditional Love”
These SPIRITUAL MASTERS never say a word to you in their entire life, neither they ever give you some assurances for the future times. Yet they are always there with you as your own Sharing-Companions, to participate in your happiness, sorrow & pain just through their expressive eyes and bodily expressions without simply asking for anything in return.
The sole purpose of this write-up is to convey to all friends here, that what actually you gain when you have a loving pet dog in your home and how you can learn a lot from those valuable lessons of life taught by him unknowingly which “otherwise remain unavailable” in our today’s so called spiritually enriched world.
In few words, a pet dog in your home precisely teaches you both LIFE as well as DEATH in his fixed and short time spent with your family. But let me start from the beginning itself.
The day someone brings home a dog, he takes the first step to rejoin his family together, more closer sharing a lot with each other, which probably they might not have been doing despite of living together for years. In fact its nothing different than a new born baby coming into the family bringing more joy, happiness and celebration all of a sudden. In many cases, one or two member may show their disliking towards this new addition at first or may feel a little uncomfortable with the puppy moving all around. But in almost all the cases, its these members of the family only who actually become the most caring & worried ones for the new entrant just within a few months. And that’s the transformation, the bonding within the family members which I strongly doubt any Spiritual Guru or Spiritual Lessons can develop with all their constant efforts and counseling even in years.
A Dog enjoys an exclusive gifted persona from the Almighty to be lived in his short life span of 10-15 years. And only in these few years he teaches you Love, Sharing, Contentment, Caring for others and many more important lessons of life through just his innocent sparkling eyes and a licking tongue. He never demands anything in return and always seems to be impartial in his expression of love (though every member of the family likes to believe that he actually responds to him a little more).
In strong words, it’s really a boon, if you get to meet a blessed human master in this life time and can cherish some enlightening insights from him to change your inner self. But if not, then here is one easily available living master who can teach you “The Art of Compassion” like no other option in the entire visible world and that too without asking anything at all in return from his disciple. This speechless loving master just knows “The Art of Giving” and gets satisfied hugely with only a tight hug in return, full of love, warmth and good vibes coming from your human body.
Moving on to the other extreme phase, your beloved Dog also teaches you probably the most important message of Life, which is ‘The Hard Truth of DEATH’ itself. In fact the moment one brings home a dog lovingly, the same very moment one also knows that he is here to stay for only few years and would be giving us all a real tough time too after his granted time is over. So as I see, bringing home a pet dog can also be looked upon as equivalent of bringing home the reminder of our own death, because in almost all the cases he is going to die in our own arms when his time ends.
Here many friends would be thinking that I should have said “All Pets” instead of dogs. But that cannot be said because dogs have a certain ‘Sad Truth’ associated with their end or their departure. As you might know, dogs don’t usually die a comfortable death. They don’t go calmly or peacefully and face many physical abnormalities or organ failures in their last days. In fact that is the reason why we have a famous saying in India, (mostly said to the other person in anger) which goes, “Tu Kutte Ki Maut Marega!” meaning “You will die a dog’s death”.
This over-famous saying is based on the harsh truth that Dogs in most of the cases don’t depart from this world easily or peacefully. The sight is so painful and disturbing in the end that in many cases you even have to make them go wishfully (with a medicine) in a more peaceful manner. And that’s not an easy day to face for their owners/friends as the departure is really tough, tragic and indeed quite heart piercing.
In those last days, one can easily feel the whole divinity of this entire universe in those quite & lonely eyes trying to say goodbye to every single person in the house. Those last few hours, when you are taking him alive towards the doctor to make him go to sleep forever stay with you always, teaching every single member of the family something……… which can never be found in any scripture, prayer or religious place.
Those last few moments are like your direct contact with the life force when your beloved suddenly becomes ‘A Body’ in seconds, lying lifeless in the doctor’s clinic and you are asked to make calls to arrange for his final burial. That very moment, when he stops responding to his name being called upon softly, fills you with such a pain which goes beyond any possible explanation in words. And that’s the moment, when he leaves this world quietly, providing us with an enlightening flash about our own END which is sure to come sooner or later without an exception.
But please don’t be discouraged by reading the above lines and please don’t take a decision that you would never bring home a pet dog after going through the above painful experience shared here. On the contrary, I would like to comment that a human life lived without feeling the speechless love of a family pet is simply like “Missing A Great Opportunity Given by THE ALMIGHTY”. If you don’t like pets then you need to develop that loving feeling towards them for sure, since in absence of that you are not living a complete or normal life on this beautiful planet at all.
Frankly speaking, it feels strange and weird to me when people say that we can easily feel the emotion of love towards a person but don’t really feel like loving a pet or an animal………As if LOVE itself has its own intelligent quotient of choosing……!
If truth be told then LOVE is an inner characteristic of our deep existence…..and if we cannot feel the same love towards these speechless, innocent friends then there is something surely missing or superficial in our so called feeling of LOVE towards our human partners too. Because LOVE as the most blessed emotion gifted to the mankind, cannot be a one sided coin at all. If it is there in a person then it will be like a fragrance ready to reach each and every identity coming its way unconditionally.
Hence, my sole motive of writing this piece remains that if you really want to experience LIFE in its totality then at least for once bring a pet dog in your home and give your utmost love and care to him like a child. And then just see what major difference he brings in the life of every member of the house in only a few weeks. Honestly the world would surely become more peaceful and a loving place to stay, if each and every home has a loving pet dog in it to keep the family together and intact. As they are nothing less than the second SPIRITUAL MASTERS on this planet ready to teach us both LIFE and DEATH in the best possible manner.
A friend once sent me a message saying, “I wonder why the reverse spellings of GOD become DOG………..? To this I replied, “I very well know why it is so but it can only be understood once you have that GOD calmly sleeping on the couch in your house.”
Summing up, I would really feel blessed if even one reader here decides to go for a pet dog after reading this sincere write-up of mine. The decision is sure going to bring a major positive change in their family undoubtedly…….....because then there will be a GOD freely moving all over the house spreading happiness and love forever.
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