It’s been 4
years my parents have bought a new house, am saying my “parents have bought”
because neither I nor my sister contributed any money, actually my parents did
not allow us to do so.
When we
bought the house the electric connection yet to come, it took 15 days to get
the connection, those days me and my family members used to visit the house
frequently, but more than us my father visited the house---almost twice a day.
So when we
got the electric connection then in between three days we completed shifting
and decoration, it became possible because all of my students spontaneously helped
us a lot.
After the fourth day of our final entry, in the evening when we were sitting in the balcony suddenly my father started to chant loudly “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna”, it did not make us surprise at all as we know he has the habit to chant the Mantras from Vedas, Upanishads and from other Hindu religious books and also he sings the songs of different god and goddesses, but the incident that happened after one minute made us surprised--- four dogs from different directions arrived and stood in front of our balcony started to stir their tails and was looking towards us with great expectations---my family members gave them lots of foods.
This is what my father made the dogs habituated when he used to visit our new house before our shifting. Giving the dogs foods he used to say “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna” and gradually the dogs realized the very fact that when they will get that sound then they will get food…
This is a very practical and simple application of Pavlov’s experiment named “Conditioned Reflex” or “Conditional Reflex” (In Pavlov’s words). Pavlov made his experiment in 1901 and I am sure he never thought that after 115 years of his discovery someone will apply his experiment to feed the animals and to make the animals listen the Mahamantra.
This same
thing my father has done with a cow---one month ago in a Sunday I was taking
lunch with my mom and sister, my father was taking rest, suddenly I heard that
a cow standing near the gate of our garage shouting loudly---my father woke up,
took the bucket full of various types of vegetables and gave that cow to eat. I
asked mom what’s going there. What I came to know is----
From last
few months a owner of a cow leaves his cow during 10 am in the grassy field
behind our house so that the cow can move and eat the grasses, my father
noticed it, being a dedicated worshiper to Lord Krishna he respects the cows
as “GouMata”(Mother Cow) he decided to feed the cow, for first few days he used
to take the food to the cow and gradually made the cow habituated with the
“Hare Krishna” mantra and after that standing in the gate of the garage he
loudly says “hare Krishna’ and the cow appears very soon. But some time it
happens that the cow does not come during morning but comes later in the grassy
field and whenever this happens the cow herself comes in front of our garage
and starts to shout to inform “I have come, where my food is?”---this is what
happened that Sunday.
When I asked my father (Through my sister, as I still afraid to talk to him) about his activity, what I came to know is--- It is said in Hindu Shastra that the plants, trees, fruits creepers and insects love to listen the Hare Krishna Mahamantra but they can’t express their feelings. Whenever they hear this mantra they began to dance and offer their gratitude by bending their heads, the similar can be found in ChaitanyaCharitamrita, Chapter--3(Antyaleela) verse 60-65.
This is the reason he loudly chant the Mahamantra moving in our garden and near the animals.
By the way, my father’s name is S.K. Sarkar.
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