THE PEACOCKS LOVE STORY
Dated: 7th July, 2013
This
is a heart touching story about those
beautiful birds called peacocks. Everyone loves the peacock for it striking
beauty and elegance. It is the chariot of
Lord Karthik Son of Lord Shiva. Lord Krishna loved peacocks and always
wore peacock feathers as a token of his affection towards the birds.
This is a heart
touching story about peacocks narrated to me by my students Abhishek sharma and
kiran Moi Bid, both doing their Ist MBA in Amrita, Coimbatore.
It is said to be
customary of the male and female peacock birds never to come body touch like
other birds,for mating.The male bird is very possessive and cannot bear the
separation from his spouse even for a very short time. He perches in a tree
nearby,separate. Peacocks never live together in a same tree.
You might hear them
emitting peculiar honking sounds, communicating to each other. It would seem as
if one was asking a question and the other answering it. Assured that his mate
was certainly near him, the male keeps silent. His proud little heart brimming
with love for her !
When the female bird
flies away somewhere faraway,and the male does not get answering honks from
her, he gets frantic. Then, he keeps on pouring out his anxiety and grief by his queer sorrowful honking sounds, till the female finally
arrives and responds by her sounds.
When he hears the
female, his happiness is boundless.His happiness is expressed by a most
graceful dance he conducts by twirling
around and flapping his magnificent wings and spreading his beautiful tail
feathers,proudly. From the other tree, his soulmate watches his every step and
enjoys it.She is very pleased by her
soulmate’s show of affection for her and makes calls expressing her love for him.
When the rains come and
the skies are dull with rain clouds,the atmosphere heightens the desire and
love for his lovemate in the heart of the male peacock.He begins a fantastic dance,
making calculated little steps and spreading
his beautiful feathers and twirling around and around till he was exhausted.. From nearby, his spouse watched seemingly stunned with his
performance.
When the dance had
ended, the male peacock folded his wings and stood in a stood stooped and
begins to weep with happiness, tears streaming from his eyes.
Sensing the desire and unhappiness in her mate;s mind,the female peacock rushes forward to comfort him .Her heart full of love and sympathy for her soulmate,she
caresses his weeping eyes with her beak and with deep affection and drinks the tears. In the process, the
female gets fertilised!
The tears are said to
contain some substance that fertilises
the female and in due course she lays eggs and brings forth their young ones.
THE PEACOCK
STORY By C.S. BHASKARADAS.
