“Sri [Ramana] Maharshi [would not] allow any of the inmates of the Asramam to treat the animals roughly. ‘We do not know what soul may be tenanting those bodies,’ he would say to his devotees, ‘and for fulfilling what portion of their unfinished karma they seek out our company.'” – Subbaraya Karnath

(M. Subbaraya Karnath, Sri Maharshi: A Short Life-Sketch. Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasaramam, 1986, 29.)