One day a Lioness died while giving birth to a cub, at that time a herd of goats were passing by and so the cub was brought up by the goats, of course, the lion believed himself to be a goat also. It was simple, natural, he had been brought up by the goats, lived with the goats.He believed that he was a goat.He remained vegetarian eating and chewing grass.He had no conception of what lion was, not even in his dreams could he dream that he was a tiger but actually he was a lion.then,
One Day it happened that and old lion came across this herd of goats and that and that old lion could not believe his eyes. A young lion was walking amidst the goats? Neither were the goats afraid of the lion nor were they aware that the lion was walking amongst them. The lion was also walking like a goat.
The old lion, somehow got hold of the young lion.Although, it was difficult to catch him. He escaped more than once. he tried, he screamed, he was afraid, he was shivering with fear.All the goats escaped and he was also trying to escape with them, but the old lion got hold of Him and pulled him towards the lake. He would not go, he resisted, just the way we try to resist facing our own self, our way being, he tried his best not to go. He was scared to death, crying,weeping but the old lion wouldn't allow him. He pulled him and took him to the lake. The was silent like a mirror. He forced the young lion to look into the water and the young lion saw with his tearful eyes that he looked just like the old lion and then, The tears disappeared and a new sense of being arose.
The goats started disappearing from his mind. He was no more a goat and he could not believe his own enlightenment, still the body was shivering a little, he was afraid and was thinking, maybe I am imagining.
How can goat turn so suddenly into a Lion?
He couldn't believe his own eyes. But now the first time he felt bravery. The old lion took him to the cave. Now , he was not so reluctant, not so resistant, not so reluctant, not so afraid, more and more he was getting bold,Gathering courage, He started walking like a Lion as he went to the cave.
The old lion gave him some meat to eat. It is difficult for a vegetarian, almost impossible, nauseating but the old lion wouldn't listen. When the nose of the young tiger came near the meat, something happened from the smell of the meat something deep in his being which have been fast asleep was awakened. He was pulled, attracted towards the meat and he started eating once he tasted the meat. A ROAR burst through his being. The goat disappeared in that roar and the tiger was there in his beauty and splendor.