If dogs were to write a holy text, would they say that “We are inferior to humans”? If chickens were to write a Bible of their own, would they say that “We exist so that we may be slaughtered in factories and packed”? Read more....
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Acharya Prashant: You see, as the world is, man is in fact inferior to animals if a comparison has to be made. Look at the worst acts of unholiness, cruelty, insensitivity—they were not perpetrated by animals. Man is responsible for them!
In my talks I attack this notion very, very frequently. I like to share with my audience that if they can rise up to the level of a dog, then their life has been fulfilled. A dog never falls below a dog. Man falls much below man; man is much worse than a dog. It is another matter that man also has the potentiality to rise, but that potentiality is realized in one in a thousand cases. In 999 cases, man falls. And man is definitely worse than animals.
You want to see some innocence? You won’t see it in a human being’s eyes, at least not in a mature adult human being’s eyes. For innocence, you will have to go to animals; you will have to look into the eyes of a cow, or a dog, or even a crocodile; even there you will see innocence. But you cannot find innocence in the eyes of the metropolitan man or a woman. It is very difficult. At most you will find it in the eyes of human kids. But anybody who is beyond the age of fifteen would have fallen below the level of a dog.
