Bhagavatam-daily 75 – 11.07.65 – Don’t let emotion rule action amidst tribulation

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Shrimad Bhagavatam 11.7.65 taan abhidhavat kroshanti kroshato bhrishatukhita kapoti the sheepy jinn swatma jaan her own offspring atmaja those who were born of her viksha on seeing them balakaan the children jaal samritaan they were trapped in the net surrounded by taan abhidhavat kroshanti so abhidhavat she ran towards them kroshanti means to make a loud noise crying out calling out kroshato they were also crying the infants bhrishatukhita bhrishatukhita means she was immensely grief struck so here we see the the happy story of the pigeon family is turning out to be a heart wrenching tragedy and the mother the she bird she is seeing her offspring and we can just imagine what must have agony must have gone through her heart she has gone to the forest to get food for her children and when she comes back and sees the children are trapped now animals as per our current scientific understanding they they do not have consciousness as developed as we have but they do experience emotions and in the past it was thought that some people used to think that animals don’t experience much emotions but it is clear to anyone who interacts with them in a person to person they do experience emotions and to a large extent even if they are not they do experience many of the bodily emotions that we experience they may not experience the kinship that comes because of having a wide variety of relatives they may not have names for uncle and aunt and in law and that kind of relationships but the animals also have a kinship among firstly in their immediate family and beyond that in their community and that is how they all live together and try to watch out for each other and here the mother bird the sheep pigeon what has happened to her she is devastated infants are crying,her babies are crying and she is also trying to cry now we can see at this level hunting is been an unfortunate part of human profession for a long long time and there is not much that anyone can do about it so in the Bhagavatam Bhagavatam mentions hunting in a non-judgmental way over here and not just here at many other places there were people who were hunters and they did lots of they did kill and it was certainly there are also stories of hunters being reformed so like Vallagudi became Valmiki and Brugari also got transformed but in general the hunters these are exceptions because the change is considered so extraordinary and improbable and that also implies that that actually hunters were also there present and people understood that hunters were doing activity that was not very high class and the chance of they getting reformed was very low and that’s why when someone actually saw them getting reformed it was remarkable so that was the implication of this particular recognition of the obsession with hunting or rather recognition of the hunter being a being a character who keeps popping in various stories so anyway the principle is jivo jivasya jivanam the hunter considered it his profession and the animals may not exactly understand the mechanisms by which humans trap and kill so they may not know exactly how a gun works for example when today people do poaching using guns but they do know that if a human being has a gun that means it’s a very dangerous thing so similarly the hunter bird sorry not the hunter bird the pigeon did not may not have understood exactly how a nest traps how a net traps nest shelters and net traps so how exactly net traps she lost all her sense she started running charging towards her children now what exactly she was going to do after getting to the net did not have any idea so sometimes if a mother comes to know that her child small baby is trapped in the house on fire the mother will just wildly want to charge into that fire unmindful of her own safety in order to somehow rescue the child now rescuing the child may well be impossible in that particular situation and the security guards or whoever are there it is their responsibility to check the child from getting harm the mother from harming herself others can go inside and try to rescue the child when Krishna was being tormented or rather Krishna was trapped he was never tormented but he was trapped in the coils of Kaliya mother Yashoda saw that she was so horrified she started charging towards Yamuna and others had to stop her she couldn’t tolerate it she swooned so that sort of mortal agony is that sort of terrible agony is understandable but then the emotions which are which are understandable in particular situations still those emotions should not become the parameters of our action when there is danger and one acts thoughtlessly in danger often one ends up worsening the problem which is there not solving the problem and that’s how we make things tougher and more and more harmful for ourselves and if you want to avoid such dangers then we need to be we need to ensure that we don’t unnecessarily let our emotions rule our actions amidst dangerous situations so in the future parts if we see how the rash act of the sheep region resulted in calamity getting aggravated not mitigated and we all naturally we will have emotions and especially when we see a loud one in danger or something like that we will want to act but our actions have to be guided intelligently otherwise they will end up aggravating the problem as it happened tragically in this case Thank you