Oh! Sai safeguard me Oh! Baba protect me

I dread mornings when it is time to read the news paper. Ignorance is bliss they say and how right it is. Every murder, robbery, rapes and hooliganism is but dreaded news and a thought process which everyday asks you the same question. Are we really human beings? Today’s news made me cry like I lost a close relative of mine. Nothing prepared me for the photographs which I was seeing it was of the one horned rhinoceros which is lying bleeding with its horn cut of and shot at by the poachers. 

Early morning in Shirdi after Kakad Arathi one gets to hear bhajans and one in it says ‘Sai meri raksha karna Baba meri raksha karna’ (Oh! Sai safeguard me Oh! Baba protect me). We pray to Baba to protect us the same Sainath who said I live in all living beings and shown us instances where animals are fed and His hunger is satiated.

Feeling of helplessness comes over when one knows he/she cannot do anything to help in this situation.

The only thing came to mind is to went my pain in writing to all Sai devotees who love Sai and follow Sai.

The poacher must have gone to such an extent only because there are buyers for such items like skin of the animals etc. when we strive towards avoiding such products we may be able to curb little of these happenings and in a way protecting the ‘Jeev’ (life) in who Sai is present. Tough it may sound but we need to start somewhere to start really following Sainath and not just by worship but by the deeds He tried to inculcate in us.

 

Poachers cut off rhino horn in Kaziranga

 KAZIRANGA, Sept 26 – A female rhinoceros was left bleeding after poachers sawed off its horn and cut off a part of its right ear after shooting it, while the carcass of another with its horn removed was found today at the Kaziranga National Park.

The female rhinoceros had strayed last night from the flood-hit park around 7:00 pm and a search operation was launched, Divisional Forest Officer Dibyodhar Gogoi told PTI.

Gun shots were heard early this morning and a search of the east division of the Karbi Anglong hills found the pachyderm in a seriously injured state, Gogoi said.

The poachers took away the horn after sawing it off and a part of the right ear and veterinarians were trying to save the rhinoceros, he said.

The carcass of another rhinoceros was recovered during the day from the Bagori range of the park with its horn sawed off, park sources said. – PTI