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 ...
Story 248 - The lion and other animals
When the lion comes out in search of his food he roars in the jungle. Hearing him, the deers, stags and other animals get apprehensive, come out of their dens and run about hither and thither in jungle. The lion thus notices them easily and attacks them. These animals leave their dens and bushes, because they, on hearing the thunderous roar, think that the lion has come near them or entered their dens, and, in order to save themselves, they run out. But their effort to save themselves proves fatal to them.
So, too, is the Case of frightened and dismayed persons, who waste their time and energy in devising ways and means to save themselves from their imagined troubles.