The Story of Baba and the Tiger skin

When Sai Baba was young boy an English officer was hunting on the
far side of the Chitravati River, which runs alongside
Puttaparthy, Baba's hometown. He killed a tiger near Puttaparthy.
(This was when the British still ruled India) He was returning to
Anantapur and his jeep was stopped opposite to Puttaparthy village
and would not start again. The driver who had heard about the
Miracle Boy (Baba) went in search of Him to see if He could help
them get their car started. The driver asked the boy "Are you Sai
Baba"? Then Sai Baba told him that he would come to the jeep.
Baba peeped into the jeep and saw the carcass of the dead tiger
which the officer had shot just two hours ago.

Sai Baba said that he had stopped the jeep at this place. He told
them that the dead tiger was a mother of three cubs just two weeks
old. He said the cubs are at this time wailing for their mother.
He told them to go back, recover the cubs and gift them to the
zoo, where they would be cared for. He told them not to shoot
wild beasts with his guns. Instead, he told the Englishman, he
should shoot them with his camera.

The Englishman obeyed Baba. Swami's counsel touched him very much
and he stopped killing animals. A month later he came to Baba with
the tiger skin. The Englishman told Baba that "I cannot live with
it any more, sir. I would like to present it to you".

There is a tiger skin under the feet of Baba in Prasanthinilayam,
which we presume that is the same tiger skin. Lord Shiva normally
wears a tiger skin and sits on it for meditation.

In the Vedic belief, one "sows what one reaps". If one is a
hunter in this life, then in the next life, he/she becomes the
animal and the animal takes human birth and hunts them! To avoid
this tragedy, it is best to STOP eating meat and become
vegetarian.