“TIGER-HUNTER CHIDED”. ×××× It was around noon one day when a driver in uniform was noticed striding into Puttaparthy. As he walked in, birds on the branches of the trees raised loud cries of fear and distress. Sathyam was sitting in the front of portico of Karanam Subbamma’s house conversing with his friends. As the driver stepped up there, the children scattered in fright. The man told Sathyam that his master’s Jeep got stranded on the other bank of the river Chitavathi. The master was in hot temper. Having heard that a boy of miracles was in the village, he had come to obtain some vibhuthi if it could get the master out of his problem. Sathyam agreed to follow him to the Jeep. The master was proudly stroking the dead body of the of a tigress, evidently shot by him in the forest. Sathyam said to him,”What harm has this poor animal done to you? Why have you killed it for no reason ? Her two little cubs are missing their mother and are feeling miserable. It was I who made your vehicle break down to make your realise this. Go back to those little motherless cubs, rescue them and entrust them to the care of a proper zoo. Never should you kill a living being for your own pleasure and enjoyment. You might shoot, but only with camera, not with a gun. That would bring you name and fame.” Surprisingly, the engine of the vehicle sprang to life with a mere touch of Sathyam and it went back the way it had come. Peda Venkama Raju, Sathyam’s father was in a panic situation at home. For defying an Englishman, that too, one who was sporting a gun, his little son might invite trouble from the police. On the other hand, the Englishman felt remorseful. Some time later, he brought the skin of the dead tigress and offered it to serve as a footrest for Sathyam. Even today it is there in Prasanthi Nilayam near Swami’s throne serving Swami as His footrest. Each and every incident of Swami’s life serves as a mirror reflecting the essentiality of Sathyam’s divine personality. Swami is the personification of ahimsa (principle of non-violence). Embodiment of compassion and pity for helpless creatures, He is Jesus Christ and Bhagvan Buddha personified.