Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

and non-animal, in that when the time of death approaches the
animal is unaware of it. The animal is not paralyzed with fear
but is tranquil at being released from the hardships, the suffer-
ing and the bitterness of this life.
Of course this does not apply in cases of humans who are
just murdering animals, because so often a human will shoot
an animal not immediately fatally, and so the poor wretched
animal, with perhaps a broken leg or a bleeding artery, will
wander off to seek shelter, left to starve and suffer until finally
death takes over; the animal can then receive the tenderness
and mercy which seemed not to exist amongst humans of such
a low vibration that they seem to lack feeling for any creature
apart from themselves.
The pain, which is caused by the callousness of the human,
well, that debt is rightly added to the human's karma, and at
some time, in this life, or when he returns to earth again, he
will have to endure a like agony which he caused the suffering
animal.
We do not get this problem when an animal is killed
humanely in a slaughter-house, because death is almost in-
stantaneous. It takes two minutes for the animal to actually
die. I mention this angle because someone is sure to say, ‘Oh,
that female has an obsession about hunting,’ and I would say
there is all the difference in the world between humanely send-
ing an animal off this world because food is needed, the animal
being treated in a humane manner, and the wholesale slaughter
of birds and animals just to pander to man's sporting in-
stinct—. Those fox hunts which through the ages have been
prevalent in England, especially indulged in by the so-called
‘upper class’, who one would expect through their education
and opportunities to know better, are to me the work of the
devil. How would any one of us feel if we were suddenly
turned loose, and a pack of dogs set after us???? If I had a
grouch at all against any member of the British Royal Family
it would be in this direction—their responsibility is so great
and their example so important that they have to consider
these things before indulging in their own preference for what-
ever it is that ‘turns them on’!
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