9 December 2014 - QA 5

Jai Guru Dev, why don’t animals have natural deaths? Why should people kill them?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Yes, that’s wrong. I don’t approve of people killing any animal. Many migratory birds have arrived in the ashram this year. Storks and Pelicans have come to the lake for the first time. They like a good environment, or perhaps there was no water elsewhere. This is very good.
We should tell the Environment Department that fishing should not be allowed in the lake because so many birds have come. If they shoot in the air, the birds will get scared.