Animals threaten each other the way humans do – how are humans more threatened?
From Sundar Murari Prabhu
Comparing the analogy of animals defend and Humans defend:
Human worries about human in terrorist form – worry and defend human. The comparison of animal won’t get afraid within same community – I don’t understand, since Tiger eats its own cub / calf. Dog also tries to defend from other dog. isn’t it?? Please clarify.
Answer Podcast:
Question from Sundar Murari Prabhu He mentioned in your Bhakti Shastri course that Animals Are not afraid of other animals Humans are afraid of other humans As in the case of terrorists and other Forms of humans attacking But animals also, dogs are Afraid of other dogs and sometimes Some animals even eat their cubs So how do we understand this Answer There are two different Contexts being stressed over here There is There can naturally be a Territorial conflict, say every Dog has its own territory and If some other dog enroaches in that territory The dog may bark, a dog may have A she-dog and if someone else tries to Get her The dog may fight and the same with a lion Two lions may fight over a lioness So that sort of Conflict is natural It is natural in the sense that It will be there in animals, it will be there in humans But it is seen in humans That The higher intelligence Is used to aggravate Conflict in a Far far greater way So for example Animals don’t Systematically out of Hatred go around Killing Entire tribes of Other animals Sometimes there is A specific animosity between say two tigers They may fight and one tiger Makes another tiger but Say the way Hitler Killed Hitler’s Nazi government, killed the Jews Millions or the way Sometimes because of some sectarian Conflict, genocide is done The whole population Is wiped out So such things Are not seen In animal kingdom So the point that was being made is That while We While the struggle for existence Is a natural fact Of material existence And that struggle can be across species That struggle can be within species But the Intensity of the struggle and the gravity Of the destruction that results Because of that Struggle That is far more in the Human species because humans Use their higher intelligence Which is Meant for actually pursuing Inquiring and Realizing higher spiritual truth Humans abuse that higher intelligence for lower Purposes So an animal does not make an Atom bomb to drop over Hiroshima or Nagasaki Humans have done that And that way The struggle for eating, sleeping, Making, defending when the higher intelligence Is abused For pursuing that in a Disproportionate, unregulated way It can have devastating Destructive consequences So the main point is The abuse of higher intelligence For lower purposes Causes greater danger And greater misery Than what the Similar situations Cause in the animal kingdom Thank you