Vasanas and animals/humans.

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advaitin , " Kuntimaddi Sadananda "

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> > " R.S.MANI " <r_s_mani

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> > I have a question:

> > Why do we look at the negatives of others or why are we

critical of

> >others? What makes us to do so? We do not do so when it comes to

the

> >creation other than human beings?

> > We accept a tiger as a tiger, and we do not see any negative

or positive

> >side in it. We see all the natural events, whether an earthquake,

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> >tsunami, etc. but we are not critical about that. That is the

play of

negatives (dosha

 

Namaste S-ji,

 

I must take you to task for your opinions being so humancentric in

the universe. Humans are perhaps not the apex of the pyramid, what

happens say in 50-100 years when there is no population on the

planet?

 

In the first place you say animals only operate on vasanas whilst

humans have will, whatever that it is. Is it desire? If so then

animals have it also. Humans mostly operate on vasanas as well, we

get them from the same place the animals do--previous lifetimes.

 

In fact RAMANA MAHARSHI SAYS that everything is predetermined, even

dropping a paper on the floor, there is no time anyway. so

everything the animal and the human do is actually previous vasanas.

 

The fact that we are 98.5% Genetically Chimp hardly separates us

from the animals. We have a larger hard drive or brain that's all.

 

The concession I will make to you is that in this illusion/delusion

the human desire or ego is much more developed than in most animals.

 

However I was reading a story yesterday where a hippo rescued a baby

antelope in its jaws, from crocodiles and placed it back on the bank

of the river with its mother. Animals display many acts of

selflessness and Daya compassion, which are hardly vasanas in the

accepted animal way.

 

Just proves again that without Daya or compassion all the other

steps to liberation or null and void. Who am I?..

 

In the last resort animals have one ability which is much more

evident in them than in humans and that is 'Love' or Sakti, and as

God is Love and Love is God, where goes the animal and the human.

One doesn't have to be human to become liberated. Even the

sadhana 'Who am I'? results in the answer -The Sakti/Love Energy--at

the Saguna Level........To wrap up I see no diference between human

animal and animal...all is one...............ONS...Tony.