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Life Of Cats

Discussion in 'Snippets of Life (Non-Fiction)' started by Balajee, Feb 25, 2023.

  1. Balajee

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    The gems one stumbles upon on internet.! |Recently I was entertained oops sorry enlighjtened by a qyote from Agni Purana that I came across online. The quote said women who beat up their husbands are reborn as cats.

    Now, this somewhat confused me. Is bearing up husbands a good deed or a bqad one. Does it make you accumulate good karma or does your account in the Bank of Bad Karma become richer?


    Beating up anyone , unless you are a Bollywood /Kollywood? Any goddamn wood hero beating the daylight out of baddies, is a bad deed, right? But if you are reborn as a cat for thrashing your hubbie dearest, it could be a good deed because cats have nine lives but we homo sapiens have only one.

    Bu then anothr proble4m arises. What decides whether you will be born as a pedigreed cat or just an ordinary scrawny street cat? The good Purana did not elaborate on this but I made my own guesses.

    If the w oman gently slaps t her Lord and Master, she could be born as a Siamese cat and if the slap0 is harder, she could be born as a haiury Persian or Himalayan cat, still pedigreed but prone to suffer lot of bad hair days,

    And if the woman really thrashes her huband black and blue, she is bound to take the avatar of a stray cat. But if the worse half (If the wife is a better half, the husband must be a worse half. right?) did not suffer any permanent damage, , the stray cats could be fortunate enough to be adopted by a family ( I have 11 such reborn ladies meowing away to glory in my home.). But don't ask me what about male cats. This reincarnation is not gender specific.

    And another point convinces me that beating husbands brings good karma because cqats have a more expensaive lifestyle than dogs. Do you know how expensive cat food is? Cats have style. Even if you adopt a cat that has been scrounging at garbage cans, it expects bothing less than salmon and tuna based feed and gets it.

    Cats eat your food but you are not their master. Try orderng them to stand , sit or roll,, they would just meow looking at you with contempt. This particular meow means " god an fly a kite"

    And these well-fed cats dn't even lift a paw to catch mice. In my home they just sprawl on the sofa and watch mice running around with the air of a Bollywood villain watching an item number. It is the dogs (Yes, plural. I have five of them. My house resembles a mini-zoo) that play the mouse executiners.

    T^he only risk in the cat's life is being chased by dogs for Svana Sutra, the holy book of dogs enjoins them to chase cats if thy don't want to be reborn as cats and be chased by members of their previous birth species.

    And I wonder, what will cats, that commit the heinous sin of making expensive demands that put a real strain on our wallets be reborn as. As mice, maybe?
     
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  2. HariLakhera

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    Interesting. But does it says what happens to husbands who beat their wives or is it permitted by Puranas and they are born as lions? (Family remains the same)
     
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    Hariji the scriptures were penned by men and reflect the patriarchy. BNelieve it or not, they consider caning of sbudras, women, servamts and animals a positively holy act.
     
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    Dear Balajee,

    11 Cats and 5 dogs? Your entire family must be busy pampering them day and night. I recently watched a video in FaceBook about how the Cats and Dogs think about humans. Dog thinks, "He feeds me, loves me, pampers me and he must be God". Cat thinks, "HE feeds me, loves me, pampers me and I must be God".

    By beating the husbands, women get better life as a cat, we should understand how privileged women are (as per the scriptures) despite the existence of patriachy in the society. By merely watching the cat's behavior, how they never give up a square inch of the space occupied by them, their meows being difficult to understand what is in their minds, etc., it is easy for us to believe that Agni Purana's thesis that Cats are women who beat their husbands in prior lives, is right.
     
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    Viswa, whikle living in Delhi we had two dogs but one of them died. We also had four cats but in Noida my animal-loving daughter added four more dogs and seven cars. Tha kfully the house is big enough to accomodate them. The cats are so quiet that you won't even nootice them. Of the dogs, two make a racket at times but the others are quiet. Except for two cats that are kept separately as thy are space conscioua, the others believe in peaceful co -existence. Probably in their previous birth they were part of a polygamous marriage that forced them to share space.
     
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    Must be a great job out of animal love. The cats and dogs need cleaning after they relieve themselves, feed at least twice a day, medical needs, and more importantly, emotional breakdown when any of them is sick or dies.
    I know it because we always had a dog at home and I have seen five of them leaving the planet. It is like losing a family member.
     
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    :hello:Kudos to pet-animal lovers. I enjoyed reading this thread. I have no experience of any sort with pet-animals. But id hv some experience from neighbours and my bosoms. But i recently seen a Hollywood movie with Dog as the hero. I think the reverse could also be true. If a male cat is misbehaved with his partner -a female cat in family way, male would get the whacking and in their next janma they may born as male and female when bala e of karma would take on. Dominating female cat now a male and karma directed would whack the wife. It will go on and on with that eight lives included.
    I was wondering why rains cats & Dogs?
     
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    The dogs poop in the park opposite our house and we remove it with poop scoop to keep the park clean. Of course the cat li8tter is a problem. The biggest problem is we cannot qall go out together because the dogs always expect a human near themk, Otherwise they develop seperation anziety and create a racket.
     
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    It is not only picking up their poop. It is cleaning their private parts—feet and all plus giving them at least a weekly shower. They jump on the sofa, or bed anywhere they wish. In my opinion, it is like taking care of kids.
     
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    Thyagu sir, no animal will misbewhave with a female animal in family way, dog or cat. Animals are in heat for a short span every year unlike humans who are in heat 23X7, probably 365 days a year (In case of leap year add one more day). Let us applt your rebirth idea to homo sapiens. Then all women suffering sexual abuse would have been male abusers in the previous birth. What a brilliabnt way to justify such misdeeds. May be I wouldn't be szurprised iif some scriptures claim this.
     
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