violence and cruelty

From where does violence come? From where arises cruelty? Violence is there in nature. We see it every day. Cat kills the mouse. It is for food. When the dog kills a cat it is not for food. It is because of the dog’s inbuilt nature. When one bull sees another, violence erupts. That is nature playing. But there is a purpose behind all this. It is to keep up a balance, perhaps as the scientists have analyzed for the survival of the fittest. In the case of the bull it is clear. The most powerful gets all the mates. In the case of the dog killing the cat, we can say that it is for eliminating competition in getting food. But there is no logic or explanation for the cat to play with the mouse’s agony before killing. This exhibition of the cruelty of nature begs any explanation. This is only one example.
Thus there is unwanted cruelty in nature itself. Then why blame poor man who is part of this very Nature? Cruelty has to be accepted, but can be accepted with compassion where inevitable. There is the myth of ‘Kaliya’ being tortured by Lord Krishna before blessing him with death.
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Conscious or unconscious intuition:
Learning, namely knowledge acquisition, however studious one might be, does not give him the power of pure intelligence and the open mindedness of intuition. Nor does it come from precise mathematical type of logic and reasoning. Intuition comes from the right brain, science says.
Strangely, intuition comes more to the innocent and the simple minded, who are not used to much logic. In the good old days, the pundits used children and simple minded followers for seeing intuitive visions or hearing supernatural voices, in order to make predictions. I once saw a six year old boy in our own house being used to find out a lost cow grazing in a far off field by looking into a betel leaf smeared with precipitated lead!. It worked and the lost cow was caught and brought back.
The above phenomenon is an example of unconscious intuition. A child’s intuitive finding of a lost animal or article is different from the intuitive powers acquired by great Gurus on in-depth meditation for long periods. They are known to predict future and foresee things by conscious intuition. Man is definitely not yet able to tap the potentiality of his own mind because the vast majority is yet to turn it’s attention inward.