You won’t believe this!
There are just some events that happen that you can’t believe. There is so many different types of phenomena and they don’t always fit into our perceived experiences. This story I found on FB and thought I’d share it here.
Tsem Rinpoche
The incident occurred in the Indian state of Punjab. Two puppies fell into a well. Their mother ran near the well and started barking, and attracted the attention of the owner, who looked inside and to his surprise there was a king cobra at the bottom, which didn’t pose any threat to the puppies. Moreover, the reptile, looked after the puppies, by not allowing them to cross to the other side, where they could possibly drown, when the well is filled with water.
In general, they spent around 48 hours together at the bottom and in these 48 hours the cobra sat quietly next to them. When help finally arrived from the forest department, the cobra slithered to the other end of the well. The puppies were not injured at all and the reptile was immediately taken into the woods and was released into the wild.
Even the most deadly and dangerous creatures on earth know what Co-existence and mutual assistance is. The human race is in this respect far behind, and this is our biggest drawback.
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Something incredible happened , it’s a rare incident where a King cobra did not bites but turn friendly . Cobras are large, venomous snakes with a trademark hood, and their bites can kill a dog within only an hour. Two puppies were lucky enough to meet a kind and friendly cobra. A man, who lived in the Indian state of Punjab, realized that two of his puppies were missing after being alerted by the mother dog. The incessant barking led the man to a deep well. Shocking to see the two puppies sitting close to a king cobra . Couldn’t believe what he saw, the king cobra did not attack the two puppies instead protecting them. Most would have reacted as the man did and thought the cobra would attack the puppies. It seemed that the king cobra was protecting the two puppies and kept them in the safest part of the well. Incredible indeed . Later the two unharmed puppies were helped up, united with their mother and the owner . So as the king cobra and later released it back to the forest. This stories remind us how surprising animals can be and that not everything is always as it seem.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
I must say this is a very rare occurrence, I’m pretty most of us did not expect this to happen. Snakes are known to be very aggressive and venomous, especially a cobra in this case. Looks like our projections and expectations can be wrong, I’m not saying that we should attempt to go near a cobra or any snakes, of course not.
A lot of things that we perceive as difficulties or dangerous may not always be “evil”, we tend to abuse, sorry for lack of a better word, people or animals that we find useless to us. What I mean abuse is not literally physical attacks, we either give them a cold shoulder or we just couldn’t be bothered.
I’m glad to know that such incident was captured by someone, I have definitely learnt something from this article, and that is not to judge a book by it’s cover. But of course, there are some things or people who are just pure evil, but we should not allow these experiences to judge our surroundings.
谢谢仁波切的分享， 可以看得出一切的灵性动物都具有慈悲心。只要它们感觉身边的磁场是没有攻击性及和谐，它们也不会处于伤害你。这象征着一切众生的心灵是含有佛性和慈悲心。只要大家和平相处，一切大地都可以成为佛净土。
感恩仁波切的分享与开示
人与人之间的相处，总是不断的互相猜疑，互相残杀，然而我们都认为是生性残暴的眼睛蛇，却在这48小时里，残暴的天性却隐没去了
人与动物的心识，是充满佛性的，祈愿我们能得有修行的机缘，让我们原本充满佛性的心识，茁壮成长
祈愿仁波切长驻在世常转法轮
I think most of us have a soft spot for puppies. Thos puppies look so scared. This is happy ending story, sometimes we cannot see the karma why the cobra did not strike ad kill the pups.
Wild animals generally live by one simple rule! Eat or be eaten. It is really astounding and unbelievable for these two lucky puppies! Even animals that live together sometime fight and injured each other, if not get killed or eaten up. It may be because of the mother’s barking that kept the copra at bay – or it could be the king copra could just had a big fat meal and feel too full to eat! Nevetheless, all start well and end well, with the puppies being rescued unharmed and the king copra released safely backed into the wild.
Dear Rinpoche,
This story is just so touching to know how even though a Cobra may be a snake, dangerous and the one of the most dangerous animal species on Earth, I think that animals should not be taken for granted because sometimes even animals that may seem like enemies could just be the closest of friends.
It is amazing how they are so many touching stories about animals that may seem to be enemies but yet they are both protective of each other.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing!
Love
Jutika
I believe the reason behind this is purely instinctual… meaning, animals kills because they have to survive, its a need for survival. They do not merely kill for the sake of killing, that is the basis of my logic. For us humans, it is quite the opposite, at least for some… we are completely blinkered into thinking we are way above all other species and hence tend to think we can do whatever we want with no repercussions… well there is one… its called KARMA!
Human,we should reflect on oneself.
This is incredible, a venomous snake worldly known to be the deadliest snake in the animal kingdom. Anyone would not have imagined such a snake be protecting any other living being other than its own. This makes me feel that any adult animal would have a conscience to understand the innocence of a baby animal. Every living being whether an animal or a human being, when they are born they are all innocent. It is the environment and society that influences to be lead into delusions. I’m really glad that that king cobra was there to have protected those puppies from the water in the well and the authorities did the right thing to free it into the wilderness, what a beautiful and touching story that some animals can be wrongly projected as dangerous when in fact the deadliest of animals can still show compassion to another living being other than its own. Thank you for sharing this story with us Rinpoche.
閱讀了上師上載大的內容，真的有點不相信這事實。一條眼鏡蛇和兩隻可愛的小狗同在一囗井里並存。腦海第一時間出現的想法，惡毒的眼鏡蛇必定會對狗狗施毒手。哈哈，意想不到事實巧好是相反，眼鏡蛇不但沒傷害狗狗還保護它們。這奇趣事件讓我明白眼鏡蛇的意識也有善与仁慈的一面，在一般情況它都是選擇性採取攻擊在它周圍有生命的物體，但這次它選擇保護狗狗。讓我感受到什麼是「一念天堂，一念地獄」。感恩上師教誨。
Thank you for the sharing Rinpoche. Truly amazing ,how the deadly could be kept in an confine area with two puppies without harming it.By nature it could just kill the puppies with it deadly venom ,But it chose to keep the puppies company.
Very clearly,it shows that the snake had a choice.When it did not felt threatened ,it did not harm the puppies.The snake only strike when it need food to survive.They had no evil intent in any way but only to defend itself when threatened.
As for human in the higher level of evolution,we tend to do things for the sake of pleasure and most of the time we tend to look the other way when it come to logic and compassion towards other living beings.
I the true sense we should be the one to defend the weak and helpless as we had a choice too.
Amazing, still wondering why King Cobra didn’t eat this two puppies ,opposites giving fully protection and caring for them . Good lesson to learn . Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.
May the king cobra how protected the puppies and show compassion now happieness, be enlighten, and liberated
What came into my mind was the karmic connection that these 2 puppies have with the kind copra king. May be they were mother and sons before, may be they helped each other before in their past life. this story opened up my mind that no matter what or who you are, there’s a Buddha in you. Even though you are as danger as the copra king, you can still choose to be kind or cruel, to love or to hate. According to karma, the copra and the puppies will surely meet again in their future life and help each other again. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing the beautiful story.
It is so amazing that even a snake can take care of dogs.
Its unbelievable its such a shame that even poisonous snakes can take care of dogs without injuring them.
The dogs is so fortunate that they were not injured or harmed.
This is a really inspiring post that i would never forget.
Thank you Seng Piow
Animals are without the full forms and without much intelligence like human, and yet this cobra protected the two unfortunate puppies in the well with compassion instead of taking them as meal. Most of us in perfect human grown body with more intelligence than animals, should show more compassion and care to every living being around us. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this wonderful story. May the cobra take a good rebirth next life and benefit more living beings in future.
This is soo cool! I would have never imagined this cobra to actually help these puppies. When i first read this, i thought that when the cobra was in the same well with the puppies, it would have killed them. But i was so wrong. What an amazing story.
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this. As nature habitual, cobra would have attacked those puppies where there is chance. But in fact, this cobra is not taking advantage but to protect the puppies from danger. That’s a good story to share with and learn from. 🙂
This is an amazing story about the king cobra saving the puppies. We always think that we know the nature of certain animals – e.g. the cobra’s nature is aggressive and to kill, yet in this instance, the cobra’s behaviour is completely contradictory. All sentient beings do have buddha nature and perhaps this cobra’s buddha nature emerged just when it was needed. Animals act from instinct while human beings are supposed to be able to act from rationale, yet humans are sometimes more inhumane than animals. This story should give people food for thought.
This story tells me that the mother natures in all the sentient beings are the same. The potential to love and to be loved are the same in all sentient beings even though they don’t read, think, talk or act like us. Love/kindness is not something that needs to convey by using words or words, it conveys when we do something to others.
Animals do feel and love too! If animals are soulless, then why dogs are so loyal to their owners, they have friends, even cats are loyal too. If animals are soulless and animals deserve to be killed and bullied, then why vicious animals like snake will protect the puppies? To someone who saves others lives, we do respect them don’t we?
The King Cobra correctly or not, has a reputation of being dangerous and vicious and yet here we see a very different picture. I wonder what the cobra was doing there and its not normal for a well to be a cobra’s nest nor can we assume that the cobra fell into the well. The snake certainly was not there to harm the little puppies or it would have done so given 48 hours of opportunity. It would appear that the snake was there to look after the pups. More and more we hear stories of animals showing care and compassion, even the most untamed animals and what is interesting here is that a snake can possess the consciousness that the puppies needed help. Where did that come from?
This was unbelievable and so heartwarming, that this snake protect this two puppies 🙂 This show it that animals can do it, why not human can do it?
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post.
Here we have a wild snake acting as a sentinel to two animals different from its kind while some people in certain parts of the world are hurting, maiming and killing such animals.Worse still dogs are being eaten as food.rtn
Dear Rinpoche, I have heard that dog protecting owner from a crocodile attack but I have never ever heard of a king cobra protecting 2 puppies from drowning for 48 hours……. Okay maybe once XD. I’m gonna share this post on Facebook right now!
this is so heartwarming and such a nice story. this shows that animals have a heart too no matter what species. and the cobra could have killed them but chose to look after them… wow. i am so happy that they all ended up oaky in the end
I’m truly ashamed of the human race… for a being that has the potential for enlightenment, I guess where there is higher potential for something good to be achieved, on the other side of the coin the larger the damage they can produce as well…
Why do I say this? Animals may kill for food, but there are many people that kill for fun… I think that is the worst. Without a good consciousness, people can be worst than animals.
A very nice sharing on how different species of animals do not harm young-lings of another.
Any creatures that can move, protect and even attack do have some senses to emotions such as fear and love. What more to feel pain when they are being injured and abused. Animals attack because they feel fear and it’s their natural instinct to survival. Humans mainly abuse animals for their pleasure and fun. Hope this story are able to open minds.
I was shocked and touched when I first read about it from the newspaper few weeks ago. I was shocked because cobra has always been known as a very venomous and dangerous animal, but in the article above, it doesn’t seem like what I have always heard.
On the other hand, I was touched because the cobra was ‘protecting’ the puppies as if it’s his/her own children. The puppies look very nervous and freaked out, poor babies…
I am very happy that the puppies made their way out safely and so do the cobra! I give thanks to the villagers, it shows that they care!
Thank You for sharing Rinpoche.
It is so hard to believe that the king cobra in fact not eat the puppies but protect them. The cobra is a confirm it is hungry and it eill eat the puppies as it is trap in the well.
Even animals have a heart to protect the puppies or other animals too why we humans can’t have a heart to care about animals.
Animals have the natural instinct to help each other. Why don’t humans have the same? It is truly unbelievable that a dangerous creature can protect helpless beings but it happens! Why are humans not doing the same to weaker people or animals? Shame shame. An animal can be smarter than humans.
In the animal kingdom, they do not attack others unless provoked or in defence. They can also sense if they are in danger fwhen confronted by others.
In this case, the puppies did not pose a dander to the reptile. They learned to co exist.
Quite amazing and it does teach me a lesson that if such deadly and dangerous animal can turn around and be protective to other species of animal instead of having them as a meal it’s so touching.
If animal can do it we as human should be able to do better
Shelly tai on 19 July 2013 at 730pm
It so amazing a sneak can save a life. I think we all should think why can be inhuman when come to killing the animals. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this post with us.
Unbelievable but true! Even the deadly and dangerous cobra can show compassion and protect the helpless puppies from danger!
Thank you for sharing, Rinpoche.
First time i heard of wild reptile and it’s a COBRA that did no harm on other being. Thank you for the sharing, it shows that even the most deadly creature on earth has the caring side.
This is just amazing. The puppies could have been the cobra’s next meal but the cobra in its limited capacity to think beyond its instinct-based mind has chosen to be compassionate. This is perhaps a predilection of a distant human past life. That’s why this is amazing and I believe that people should be even better than that. But unfortunately, that is not the case for a great many people because we are either just to engross in our self-pleasures or that we rather just ignore the plight of others, particularly those of the animal world.
Amazing isn’t it?! Cobra not only harm the puppies but also understand to protect them from danger of drowning. How can we assume that all animals are “lowly” when some are able to display such signs of compassion and care for others, irregardless their species. In saving the puppies, the cobra too got saved too, as in the theory of karma (what you give is what you will receive, now or later). Thanks Rinpoche for always opening ourselves more through all your articles.
Awwwww This is so super sweet and cute!! And it is amazing too that the Cobra shows compassionate!!! Awesome! Thanks for sharing Rinpoche 🙂
Amazing, the most dangerous reptile of all, a cobra,can live in peaceful co-existence with two little puppies for forty-eight hours! Not only that, it can also ‘keep an eye’ on them and ‘protect’ them. Humans(the most advanced of beings on Planet Earth), on the other hand, not only cannot live in peace and side-by-side with other beings,but must resort to harming and killing them for their own self-serving ends.
When will humans ever learn?
Nonetheless, I’m glad that in this incident, the people involved repaid the kindness of the cobra by releasing it, into the wild, unharmed.
The more I read what Rinpoche shares the more I open my mind, or I have to open my mind. What I used to think some phenomena should be the more challenges my mind is having. What we think human beings as higher level being should be, always contradict with what we act and, what we witness. In the other hand, what we think animals would be and could be, always give us some out of expectation experience and even inspiration. Thank you, Rinpoche.
it is truly unbelievable thank you rinpoche for sharing.
Unbelievable! Thanks Rinpoche for sharing.
Even the most deadly and dangerous corba is saving puppies. It’s a shame that we human still harm animals or harm one another to get what we want..
Yes it is truly unbelievable, even the most dangerous and deadly cobra can protect the young animals of a different kind. This shows that all animals and creatures no matter how dangerous they are have buddhas nature in them too. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this heartwarming story.
Animal instinct to protect the puppies, how about human?