Baby Seals

I have read what Mira, my friend in Zaadz, has written on 22-03, 08-04 and 14-04-2006 about the merciless and barbaric killing of the seals in Canada islands and how different visitors and seal activist are 'illegally' and inhumanly being debarred from visiting places of the butchery and how even the Government agencies arrested the innocent visitors in order to hide the Truth from the world at large. I think Mira was perhaps personally present among the team of observers arrested by the Officers of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of the Government of Canada.

The entire practice and the attitude of the sealers and even the Officers of the Department of Fisheries and Ocean is completely inhuman and barbaric. It is most uncivilised, cruel.

When I was a small child and would not sleep, my mother would tell me stories of demons and their cruel and demoniac, terrifying and horrible activities. They would terrify and eat the human beings. The humans hated them, but were also afraid of them and could not help themselves, till a Prince would come and kill the demons.

Now I feel and see that the humans have become the demons. The entire living world, including the human beings themselves, are afraid of the humans. We eat and kill every living being for our self-interest. The consciousness is submerging more and more into The Abyss, as told by the Mother [Mira Alfassa].

While Zaadz is dreaming and thinking and trying to change the World obviously into a far better and more beautiful and worthier place, these torturous genocide of the seals, under the cover and protection of the Government officers of Canada, is definitely standing as a great, very great obstacle on our way.

The genocide of the baby seals is not a new thing. You can find some reference to it in one of the recorded and published conversations of The Mother [Mira Alfassa] back in 1969, which I am quoting here below for ready reference and perusal by the members of Zaadz :

October 11, 1969

Oh, a few days ago I was told a frightful story what depths humanity has sunk to … it’s unbelievable. Have you heard this story of the slaughter of the baby seals?
When seals are born (a certain species of seals), they’re all white, and they remain so for a few weeks, then they lose their hair and turn gray, — gray or yellowish, like their fathers and mothers. And as it is the fashion to wear all white fur coats, some people … It’s organized by some trader or other: seals gather at the time of giving birth, there is a place there, in the North, on an island, where they gather in their thousands, and each member give birth to a single child.
So these people go there in boats, fully equipped, and when the seals are born, they kill them — thousands of them at one go. It takes ten or fifteen skins to make a coat. And they slaughter them. But for the carnage to be cheap (you understand, it should not cost too much), they club the animals on their heads, then with big butchers’ knives, they skin them on the spot — skin them while they are alive….
That is to say … it seems they shriek, you know, they aren’t dumb…. It seems the mothers ( they have just given the birth, you see, they are suckling the pups ) try to defend them — so to prevent them from seeing what goes on, they put out their eyes … Well, when I was told that, I saw a humanity sinking into … an abyss of ignominy. …

Why, why? And those women who wear that … all those animals’ suffering, all those animals’ horror, their terror — they wear all that on their backs. And it doesn’t give them nightmares!… Unbelievable.
It seems the fashion is to go dancing wearing a stole made of two or three skins of those poor beasts….
People are getting insane!
It’s only one example, one sort of epitome. But this IGNOBLE consciousness is everywhere on earth…. I saw it like that. But it’s one thing that has as if crystallized to awaken the reaction.
Oh, those little ones …
Seals are very highly evolved animals, they are not among the unconscious ones. …
It’s not so much for those poor little ones, because they have a special protection (all that is conscious in them is like that, cherished). It’s the ignominy of humans: they must become conscious of their ignominy — they fid it quite natural….

Oh, it’s the humans, because even animals are not so disgusting….

A beast like a tiger or lion kills only when it’s hungry. But to make money —this is to make money …. With the women, it’s unconsciousness ; I am sure a vast majority of those who wear that, if they were told, “ You’re wearing on you the skin torn from a living and shrieking animal,” it would give them nightmares —the vast majority. Very few would say, “Why should I care !” Very few.

But the brutes are the ones who are getting rich.