There was a pregnant lioness. Once she was roaming in the forest in search of prey. She saw a flock of sheep at a distance. She jumped on the sheep but while leaping the lion cub was born and unfortunately, the lioness died.
The baby lion started growing with the sheep. He spoke like the sheep and ate grass like them. Gradually this child grew up to become a young lion, but his habits remained the same as that of sheep.
Once an old lion was passing by and he saw a young lion behaving like sheep among the sheep flock. He somehow caught this young lion and asked him – why do you speak like these sheep, eat grass like them? You are a lion. the young lion That he was not a lion but a sheep.
Somehow the old lion took that young lion to a pond and he showed him his face in the water. When the young lion saw that he looked like an old lion, he started thinking that probably he was a lion and not a sheep.
Then the old lion asked the young lion to roar. The old lion roared at him. Seeing the old lion, the young lion also roared in the same way. After this, the young lion fully realised that he was a lion and not a sheep.
we ourselves are brahman. But because of being in this body and being the world, we have forgotten our Brahman nature and think that we are mere human beings.
We consider that we are the body and the mind. We consider the pain of the body or mind as our own. Whereas, we are unattached to them. The sorrow or pain of body and mind is not ours.
We should always remember that we are Brahman and not ordinary human beings. That we are lions and not sheep. keep in mind at all times that the happiness and misery that belong to the body belong to the body and whatever belongs to the mind is of the mind and not ours. Nothing that affects mind or body affects us, because we are Brahman.
We got the inspiration for this story from the lectures of Swami Sarvapriyanand Ji. he is currently associated with the Vedanta Society, New York.
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