Parables of Rama
by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words
Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...
A man of India, an Anglo-Indian who lived in India for some time, on coming back to England, was boasting to his wife about his valour and strength, about his prowess. They were living at their country house, and there appeared a bear on the scene. This Anglo-Indian climbed up to the top of an adjoining tree, while his wife took up a weapon and killed the bear, and then he came down. Some other people came to where they were and asked, "Who killed the bear?" He said, "I and my wife have killed the bear." Oh, it was not so. Similarly, when the thing is done by others, to say that it is done by me, or it is done through Christianity, is not true.
MORAL: Taking credit of what is good for one's own self and throwing blame of what is evil on others is unfair and untrue.