khalsalife

My family took charge of abandoned kittens twice. Each time these were three in number and comprised of males and females. Unlike pups or dogs, kittens and cats are not attached to humans, a cat is very moody and may or may not respond to you even if you provide her food and a protective corner in the home. All it does is eat-drink and vanish. However here I write of my experience with two kittens, a male and a female. Both were born apart in time from the same mother cat, but had one thing in common. They were weak and frail, often they lost the battle to suckle their mom because of their healthier siblings and continued to remain weak. As the milk dried with the mom, these kittens would tread a long and dreary path of weaning. We watched them wait for their mom to be near, and when she would come, she would his and bare her teeth to keep them at a distance. We could feel the longing in the eyes of the kittens to be near her and suckle her, but fear kept them at bay. At this stage they would adapt to being hand fed by us. Ill health could never be won by them and slowing the inevitable would result. What was strange was that both came close to all the family members, and as cats do would rub their flanks with our legs and if we were sitting would sit in our laps and expect us to stroke their soft coats and then when they had their fill they walked away never to be seen alive.

I am awestruck with this, it has happned twice and I often am able to recall their being around us. I miss them more than some of known beings and wonder if they knew their end was near and it was a way of bidding adieu.

What ever the case if entering in and out of 84lakh joonhi's is the theory, then I pray to God that these spirits should get out of this cycle and lead a good human life to achieve moksh or mukty and be free from this cycle of birth and death.

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