Monthly Archives: October 2013
118. TWO FIGHTING RAMS AND A JACKAL
One day , a Sanyasi while going through a jungle, saw two golden rams fightin each other. They rammed into each other until blood oozed out. But still they refused to stop fighting.
Meantime a blood thirsty jachal arrived on the scene and began to lick the blood from the ground. Seeing this, the Sanyasi thought to himself, If he comes in between the two fighting rams, he is sure to get himself killed. Sure enough, craving for blood, the jackal got caught up in their fight. He was hit on the head, fell down and died.
❖ Do not close your eyes to the impending danger due to greed.
117. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB
Long ago, there lived a wolf in a dense forest. The forest was surrounded by hills and gorges. A small river flowed through it.
Once the wolf was drinking water at the head of a stream, when he saw a lamb drinking water from the same source down at some distance. The cunning wolf began to think of an excuse for attacking the gentle lamb and eating him. So he shouted down at the lamb, “How dare you make the water dirty I am drinking?”
116. THE WOLF AND THE CRANE
Once, there lived a greedy and cunning wolf in a dense forest. One day, while he was having his dinner, a bone got stuck into his throat. He tried hard to take it out, but couldn’t succeed in his effort.
The wolf began whining with pain. The pain was unbearable. The wolf got worried and began thinking, “The pain will subside in due course. But, what will happen if the bone doesn’t come out. I won’t be able to eat anything. I will starve to death.”
115. THE WIND AND THE SUN
Once an argument took place between the wind and the sun as to who was stronger of the two. The wind claimed that he was stronger than the sun, whereas, the sun disagreed saying that he was more powerful than the wind.
Of course, this was a friendly argument, but there seemed to be no end to if. After a marathon discussion, they both came to the conclusion that mere discussion won’t serve any purpose. They, practically, have to do something to prove their point.
Just then, they saw a traveller walking down the road. The sun got a bright idea and said to the wind, “Let’s test our strength on that man. Whosoever of us can force him take off his jacket, shall be considered the winner. Have your chance first.”
