DOGS

Having some difficulty with a neighbor. 

They have fenced-in their property which meets my property in the back where I have made a nice Tulsi garden. They let their three dogs run loose in their fenced-in area but as soon as the dogs see me collecting Tulsi leaves or worshiping Tulsi devi they bark ferociously and strain at the fence, like they want to kill me. It's horrible. After some time either the man or the woman will call the dogs into the house but this attack mode continues for a good while before they call them in. 

I have tolerated this for almost two years. There is no way to make friends with these dogs. I have tried. They are just not the kind of dogs you make friends with. Plus the owners are inadvertently training them to do this by calling them into the house to stop the barking and giving them a treat. So the attack mode is getting worse. It really is very disturbing for Tulsi devi.

We all know what dogs do to Tulsi devi when they can get away with it.

Last week the people went away for the day and left the three dogs outside all day. I had to deal with it all day. It was a day I had put aside to tend Her garden…weed-pulling etc. The dogs would not stop. After thirty minutes I was in a rage. I could have killed. I am usually very peaceful but if my temper is ignited I have a very difficult time to control it. It is taking a lot of practice for me to control my temper. But I just couldn’t tolerate having this go on and disturbing Tulsi devi like this.

I don’t have any money but I have decide to go ahead and put up a six foot high wooden privacy fence. This should help since the dogs will not be able to see beyond the fence. 

However my anger will not go away. I was chanting this morning, four days later and I still was angry. Not just at the dogs, after all they are just dogs but at the people who own them for allowing this to go on. I could not concentrate on chanting. It was horrible. 

And then I got what I needed. Lord Nrshimha deva's mercy!!! Krishna in His incarnation as Sri Nrshima.

My Lord gets angry when His devotees are threatened. I didn’t need to get angry. Krishna was already very angry. And I could almost hear His beautiful roar resound throughout the universes as when He appeared to protect Prahlad. What a gorgeous sound…music to the ears filling the hearts of the devotees with love and a frightening horror for the demons.

When I get the wooden fence put up in a few weeks I am going to place a carved, wooden, ferocious, roaring lion's head on the side facing the neighbors.