Dear Friends,
I am writing this not in grief but under the divine light & guidance of someone who left us. This is the reason this email is going to all the people I know and not just the animal lovers/ activist fraternity I work with generally. Some may ignore this but others may be in need of these words as I did till yesterday. Yet I feel it is important to share this pleasant moment in my life with everyone, so others can also feel or experience what I am doing today despite my grief. It is one rare moment in my life which I never thought would be perceived so as I do today. I am also writing this on behalf of the one who left us as he wanted me to. Please try to read it till the end.
We often blame God for giving us sufferings of pain, separation, hardships or what we sometimes call a form of retribution. But, we surely miss the point.
Even I did so, till this May 16, 2010 when God took away from me my only, most priced and loved thing in the world, my pet dog and the youngest and most loving member of our family, “Piggu”. He was my first pet in my complete senses to say.
Piggu was hail and hearty, not very old or sick, yet just a series of events took him away. The circumstances and the divine intervention wrote our destinies in a jiffy, without giving us any time to react, prepare or resolve. In fact he was in very good shape.
Even though Dr Vinod Sharma of Jeevashram kept trying all that was in his power for 6 long hours but couldn’t save him. I am grateful to him for giving his best. I know he had a special connection with Piggu. Probably that is why he drank his last gulp of water from Dr Vinod and not from us.
Each one of us loose someone special every moment in a way and life goes on yet we never learn what He wants us to learn. If Piggu had passed away a normal death from an ailment or old age, me and my family would have also sought it in the same spirit of negativity and deep pain.
But the events proceeding his demise showed us just how well planned he had made it all for a particular purpose he had in mind. And he was just a dog to many.
Just so that we are not in any doubts, after leaving us on Sunday he came back to show us the real self he was, not once or twice but for three days in a row.
I would not get into the details of how he did that or what he told us, as I don’t want arguments, critical rationale, disbelief, doubt to dilute the effect of the message he gave me. I couldn’t see it too, immediately, as we were too pained after he had left us, but he kept comming back till we were ready to see it.
It was not a thought to satisfy our grieving souls but came as physical proof to many in our family. He appeared to many, even the ones who had not seen him ever but had known about him and loved him nevertheless for his love towards us and vice versa. This includes a friend in Agra who had never seen Piggu but had guided me in times when he was ill last year. He appeared to my friend minutes after he left us on May 16, 2010 between 12:30 and 1:00 pm. My friend told me before I informed him that piggu had left us and what also told me just to confirm colored skin Piggu had. He had appeared to him immediately after his death, 150 kms away. The fact he reappeared several times after being buried is not coincidence to us. The fact that he told us things not even we knew is not our illusions. There are many such thrilling experiences which I can’t quote unfortunately, yet they were no illusions, which all happened after he left us. When he re appeared in person, he was accompanied with the divine form we worship, Shri Shirdi Sai baba. He proved it to us in many ways that it was not our hallucination. He gave us physical proof and then his final message. And at this moment if anyone should have any doubts, illusions whatsoever about the authenticity of the events, then it should be me and my family who has lost everything that was to us and the meaning of God should mean nothing to us. But it is not so.
Hence the reason I share this private moment and experience, as it is most important for all to know what he showed us. Why he came back ?
His message to me was clear and thus :
He came to tell me that -
“ He had found his salvation, because he had done nothing else but loved us from the core of his soul and heart. ”
One doesn’t have to believe or worship god to attain perfection. You have to believe in love.There is no bodily restriction to salvation, peace and eternal love.
But the only restriction to us getting it all is the restrictions we impose on ourselves in sharing love with others. Our fears, doubt, questioning, anger, ego, self are our only hurdles, not the bodily form which we take in our births. Its a complete misbelief that only human form can attain moksha and that too through many rituals or practices and what not. Even I believed that knowledge was a way to God.
He had come to tell me that for all God is nothing else but perfection through surrender, sacrifice and truth in love.
GOD IS NOTHING ELSE BUT LOVE PAR EXCELLENCE.
Salvation through true love and total surrender to anyone you love is only way to perfection, peace and eternal love. Loving all forms of God that we see in all his creation.
Since I was his god, he gave me all his self in every sense for as long as he lived with us.And he achieved his salvation because of this impeccable and perfect LOVE.
These are not my perceptions as we read daily in scripts or books, but what he told me after his death, in person, in spirit, soul to soul and in physical form too. Recollecting the last 9.5 years he spend with us, I see very clearly, as to who he was, why he had come and what he wanted to give and where he went. The list of events are very long and many but all authenticated and cross questioned by me several times before.
And the point and conclusion is short.
He gave me his real identification. Who he was ? and how I knew him from the past life ? why he had come and where did he go ?
He had come to start and also completed my search in God and taught me in the end the meaning of true salvation and how to achieve it.
What I saw after Piggu’s life and death was proof of this ?
It is again not a coincidence that he left on the day of “akshaya trithi” as per hindu calendar. I needn’t mention the importance of this day to the learned. All these dates seemed superstitions and beliefs to me till this day. But not anymore.
The fact that all street dogs he used to play with didn’t eat food and came grieving to my feet the next day is another fact which actually shows the divine connection all life forms have with each others except humans who are so restricted within their senses and notion of knowledge.
While I was grieving his physical demise, even I hadn’t felt his divine presence until I experienced these series of events, which I can’t share in detail. But he truly showed me the world as one temple and respecting and loving all creations as god’s worshipping.
Piggu was my last stage to identifying God. The rest he told me was up to me to continue to explore and achieve. He would only guide me and the rest I had to do on my own.
I used to ask myself and others a question – “ what is the purpose of life ? ”.
Finally he told me that the only purpose of life is to LOVE all, to reach not GOD but the statehood of God through nothing else but HIS only characteristic called Love.
He said -
Love all despite their hatred, despite their vices, despite their scorn, despite their evil.
Love selflessly, perfectly and quietly.
Love to give and not to take or ask.
Love so that even destinies have to be rewritten.
Love so that there is nothing else left to do.
Because only love can dilute and destroy everything else that is not love.
There is nothing else worthwhile in this world than love.
Love is above knowledge, above truth, above perfection, above everything else.
This is how Piggu loved us and got what highest and learned of saints don’t get in many many births. His physical form as a dog could not come in the way to his moksha.
He remains here like the scent remains and spreads even more after the bottle is broken. So even if his body has perished, it has lead to the spreading of his omnipotent LOVE for us and around us. His true love for us which has spread so widely, where ever we go, has diluted all the grief and pain.
My spiritual Guruji reaffirmed all these events even before I asked him or mentioned it to him. He told me that I had experienced these the first time I met him after sunday. He told us not to miss but to feel Piggu’s presence, or else he would have to come again from moksha to fulfill our craving for that mundane physical form. This would not be true but selfish, physical love, if we wished that.
All this may seem like a clichéd quote from a script or an outburst, but all these words mean real to me now when I have seen the physical manifestation of it happening in front of my eyes. Not once but many times in the last few days.
So I choose his path to reach him one day. There is no pain or grief as he is around and constantly teaching me to share and love, reminding me through this fading pain of physical separation, not to give any pain to anyone in any way.
I saw the true reflection of the love of GOD in a DOG.
You may see it in someone else. Don’t miss it.
We don’t value our families and people around us and run away from them in one pretext or the other. We value possessions which separate us, we argue, we hate, we despise, but we don’t surrender, we don’t forget & forgive and we don’t seek love from each other. And we think all this will come on its own once we have achieved our petty goals. We seek worldly knowledge and hesitate to let go, but never seek which is so easy because of our hesitations and egos, our notions of self.
Yet what this dog did all his life was nothing else but love me all the time he was here.And in the end too gave his life to secure our future which we believe is true.
Only one simple act of loving us which he repeatedly did all his life got him the statehood of GOD.
After this I feel all the knowledge that I think I have gathered is a waste.
Piggu’s final message he gives us with these painful moments is only to attain his state and find him again by practicing to share LOVE.
I will try to do it. And I urge you all to start afresh and shun all hatred, scorn, doubts about anyone you meet and just try to seek their love by giving all that you can.
There is no discrimination in God’s creations. These different forms that we see are only “illusions” that we have to break and see all as one, with only one eye. And that is only possible if we share one equal feeling with all. That of truth in love.
As a tribute to the wonderful 9-1/2 years he gave us, here is a poem in hindi which we felt was the only way to capture in parts the physical connection and time we spent together and share the love he gave us with all.
The poem is uploaded at this link : (a low resolution file is also attached here)
http://atributetomypiggu.blogspot.com/2010/05/citizensforanimalrightsgmail.html
He is still with us in spirit and will be so always.
I have faith.
Please remember him in your prayers and he will give you his eternal love.
Thanks
on behalf of our "Piggu"
Rishi and family
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