Do Animals Have Souls? - Anyone who has looked into the eyes of
their pet, or animal friend, will recognise a sentient being whose intelligence
transcends the limitations of the body they occupy. We are all sentient beings
and a soul is a circumscribed zone of the intelligent sentient power that has
gives birth to all life; the spirit of the soul is the activity of the soul and
if I may quote a few lines from a collection of ‘Letters on Yoga’ written by
Sri Aurobindo; ... Yes – to watch the animals with the right perception of
their consciousness helps to get out of the human mental limitations and see
the Cosmic Consciousness on earth individualising itself into all forms –
plant, animal, man and growing towards what is beyond man.
He also wrote – Yes, it is a more simple and honest
consciousness – that of the animal. Of
course it expects something, but even if it does not get, the affection
remains. Many animals, even if ill
treated, do not lose their love which means remarkable psychic development in
the vital.
The pets we choose say something about ourselves and
whether it is the child’s rabbit or the pet dog or cat they teach us to love
without conditions. If we can love others without conditions we open a stream
of life-force that soon becomes a river and eventually an ocean that will
transform the nature of the world in which we live.
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