A wonderful tale from Vedic literature:
In a forest in India, a lioness gave birth to a little lion cub. The mother unfortunately died soon after when the cub was just a few weeks old. The cub wandered off after trying to wake up his mother and got lost in the middle of the woods looking for food. By a stroke of luck he found a ewe feeding her young. He was accepted among the sheep and grew up in their company. Naturally he did not know that he was a lion. He felt weird at times because he had trouble learning to bleat and because the grass has hard from him to digest, but he did not know any better.
One day, while the sheep were doing their normal grazing, a big lion came roaring and running after them. The sheep were terrified and ran away bleating – and so did the lion cub. The big lion stopped in surprise at seeing a lion cub being afraid of him and bleating like a sheep. He grabbed the lion cub in his mouth and carried him away to the jungle. The lion explained to the frightened lsub that he was not going to eat him, because the cub was the son of a lion, but that it was not acceptable for lions to be in the company of sheep.
The cub could not grasp what the lion was telling him and kept saying ‘Don’t eat me, please!’. The lion knew then that the cub was not aware of who he really was. He took him to a nearby river and made him look at his image in the reflecting water. The cub at last accepted that the lion was right. Instantly he began walking like a lion. He stopped bleating and started to roar like his fellow lions.
Most of use like the cub, forgotten our true nature, who we are, surrounded by others who are like sheep and go through life with our heads down unable to recognise the wonder of the creative self inside us. If you want help understanding your true nature contact me.
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