Light of Nonviolence

Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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THE OWL
The owl is fabled for its wisdom in both the East and the West. It should be emphasized that most of this story takes place in a dream, occurring over three nights.
There is a wonderful and miraculous kinship between animals and humans. However, there are important differences, since animals do not have the same physical, intellectual and spiritual capacities for higher states of consciousness that humans do. Also, while the energy in humans is goings upwards, toward the higher centers of consciousness, thus making enlightenment or Selfrealization possible, in animals it is going downwards, making it almost impossible. But these are subjects for another time and only indirectly related to my story.
One time I was staying in a village where an owl lived. The first night that I heard the owl, I had a dream about him. The owl was in a high tree and I was nearby on the ground and he did not see me at first.
He started his hooting and calling, and in my dream, I heard him taking all the parts of a gang of men who were going to steal something at the village. First, one man was going to hold the bag, another was going to get something valuable to put in the bag, while another man was watching
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