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Do not Provoke Others and

So be Safe from Others

Violence breeds violence and peace breeds peace. This is the
simplest and best formula in life.

he white tiger has the reputation of being a large,
Tpowerful, carnivorous animal. But one such white
tiger called Vijay, a resident of the Delhi zoo, had always
been known to be a very gentle animal and, according
to the zoo officials, had never been seen to be aggressive.
However, on September 23, 2014, a group of boys went
right up to the tiger’s enclosure and started acting in
a rowdy manner and throwing stones at it. One of the
boys even jumped over the iron railing and entered
the tiger’s enclosure. The tiger remained motionless,
watching the boy in silence for a full fifteen minutes.
Then it pounced on the youth and killed him. It then
dropped his dead body at the far end of its enclosure.
What almost certainly provoked the tiger into attacking
the boy was that the onlookers kept trying to divert its
attention by pelting it with stones
This incident is not only the story of a tiger, but is
rather the story of life. The tiger, or any other animal
for that matter, is not innately aggressive. By nature

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