Let us Seek forgiveness from the pregnant elephant and all the living creatures we have hurt.Today is world environment day. It is sad we have to talk of the heartless killing of a pregnant elephant.

Have you ever looked into the eyes of an elephant? They are far more sensitive, kind and family oriented than most human beings.

A mother elephant holds her baby for 18 to 22 months in her womb - which is two times more than a human mother does.

How could we do something so heartless to a creature as magnificent as her. Like any human mother, an elephant mother also plays with her baby, grooms them and brings them up with endless love for years.

From where does this arrogance come in human beings to steal their life, their land, their babies, their bodies and their future? We can’t kill them and get away with it just because they can’t penalize us.

How can we be so cruel to mother earth’s children?

One simple virus could teach us a big lesson, take the lives of so many and break the backs of entire world’s economy.

Have we not learned our lessons yet?

One would expect some realisation would have dawned on us. Some heart and some feeling would have awakened. Sadly it does not seem to have happened. We can’t be a nation who worships Vinayaka but kills elephants. India is not this.

We are a people who woke up every morning and sought blessings not only for all human beings - but for every living creature on earth.

we chanted

[ Sarve janah sukhino bhavanthu lokaan samasthaan sukhino bhahavanthu ]-

Let us return to our soul let us reconnect with who we actually are with take a few moments, and seek forgiveness from all of mother earth's creatures.

Please close your eyes. Place your palms on your heart and internally apologize to every living being on whom you may have perpetrated cruelty.

Let all of us ask forgiveness from that mother elephant who suffered agony, lost her own life and that of her baby helplessly.

You may open your eyes now.

On this world environment day let us all make a decision not to buy any object of beauty or prestige that may have been created after hurting an animal.