Om Amriteswaryai Namaha
I had been thinking of writing about this incident on the blog for a while but somehow it didn’t come through. My friend and I generally get to the institute (across the backwaters) after the morning archana and tea, to start our work early. While waiting for the boat we used to watch the kites deftly swooping in on the fishes in their morning hunts and the crows endlessly trying to tail and chase them.

One such morning we saw a bird in the backwaters trying to swim and a few crows trying to attack it. On closer look we found that it was a young kite in the water trying to swim and reach a coconut stump. The bird should have lost balance when swooping down and fallen into the water. Soon quite a number of crows started flying towards it and started to attack the bird, at this time a couple of adult kites started swooping around the young one who was trying to swim and kept the crows away. Soon the young one reached a coconut stump and started drying out its wings. Now the crows didn’t attack and the young kite was also not disturbed although the crows were flying around, at times even pretty close to it. Soon after its wings dried, the kite flew away.

This incident stuck to my mind pretty much and was admiring the way how even birds protect another of their species when they are in trouble.
A couple of days back in the Tuesday question & answer session, Amma talked about the need to have compassion for our fellow beings who are suffering and do whatever we can to help them. She mentioned that if someone slips and falls into a pit we should not just think or say that it is their prarabdha or bad karma and that is why they are suffering and just walk away but we should help them get out. At that time I remembered the incident of the kites and the crows and it struck me how nature, birds and animals keep teaching us through different incidents.

Amma also says that if we watch nature, birds and animals we can learn a lot from them and this was proven practically in my case here.

Another thought that struck me about the incident was that just like those adult kites watching over the young one although they were flying high and swooping down to its rescue when it was in trouble. Amma keeps a watch over us all the time, irrespective of wherever She is physically and comes to our rescue in our times of need.

I am sure many of Her children would have experienced Her presence and help in different ways.

Namah Shivaya
Sudharsan, India