Hamster-ignorance
One of our hamsters is so bad! Today, with the top end of a ballpoint pen, I pushed it. Even then it did not move. I thought, “O God, it is dead!”Then I pushed it again and it opened its eyes. It was enjoying such ignorance-sleep!
27 September 1980
Sri Chinmoy, Friendship with the animal kingdom, Agni Press, 2010