We
think that animals must be happy. We see a dog riding along in a car
and we think that it is being very well looked-after. But you haven't
seen a dog cooking its own food, have you? Cows give milk but you won't
see a cow cooking milk-pudding. They have to eat whatever they are
given. Theirs is a passive existence. A human life, on the other hand,
is an active existence. People can create karmas. We can see how much
humanity has achieved. We read in the Ramayana that Ravana made all the
deities serve him, and this surprises us. But today, due to science, we
can push a button and turn on a fan - we have conjured up the
`wind-god'! We push a button and on goes the heater - we have invoked
the `fire-god'! We push a button to turn on the light — we have invoked
the `sun-god'! So we can see how much mankind has accomplished. You
don't have to be a bird to fly - now we have aeroplanes. You don't have
to become an elephant to do heavy work - we have bulldozers which can do
the work of an elephant. In other words, people can do actions and
suffer or enjoy the consequences of action, too. Really, human beings
have so much potential. We are a bundle of energies, we have so much
power. But we have turned our attention outwards and are just racing. We
have done so much, but we haven't been able to go within ourselves, and
this is why we lack peace.
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