A while ago we wrote about Dog in Hindu Mythology and Man and God. They were about the references of dog in Hindu mythology and how the man got hos 80 years of age and how the man had got his companion - woman. You must have heard many jokes about husband and wife in which they prefer dog as their companions, instead of each other respectively. Do you know why do they do it so? So today we will talk about God and dog. Dog is a very important animal in our Hindu scriptures after cow in spite of being a very inauspicious animal. Let us see how the dog came to be called dog and why men and women prefer dog over their companions.
In the beginning, when God started His Creation, God made the earth and sky, the flowers and the trees, He then made all the animals, the fish, the birds and bees. When at last He had finished making everything, He saw that no two were quite the same. He said - "Let me go around this world of mine, and then give each one a name." So He traveled far and wide and went everywhere wherever He had His Creation and gave each one a name.
Now wherever He went a little creature followed Him. All were named upon the earth, in the sky and the sea, but that little creature. So in the end that little creature said - "Dear Lord, There's not one left for me?" God said - "I have left you to the end. I have turned my own name for you - back to front, and called you dog, my friend." Thus the dog was born.
And since the God gave him His own name, it is all right even if it was turned back to front, men and women saw the God in him. So when men and women do not appreciate each other, in spite of being produced from one body, the next thing they appreciate DOG.
Sushma Gupta
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