Story 4
. The story of three friends: Introduction to the storyl
This is one of the stories that will be useful during the entire life time. Mere reading won't do. After reading, remember the story, think it over several times and thus internalize it in the mind.?
The people world over can be identified as having one of the three animal traits.
Whenever you look at a new person in your neighborhood, working place or a co-traveler in train, observe his talk and actions. You should be able to identify that person's mind correctly. You should find if he were a
Donkey, Fox or Q Lions by mind, from his talk and actions.
This story will give the reader the ability to identify others in their neighborhood. This ability would save readers from being exploited by others with the mind of Fox and Lion waiting to devour you.
Now the story of Three friendsl
A fox used to visit a village adjoining the forest.
On one such occasion the fox found a strange animal, late into evening eating paper and other discarded material.
From the looks, the fox thought it could be a ferocious one. After observing from a distance, for a while, it concluded, it was a dull headed, strong but lazy animal.
It made friendship with it, so that, someday it would come of some use!
A lion in the forest was the friend of this Fox.
While it kept a safe distance from the lion, it did not miss an opportunity to show its respect and loyalty to it. Some times, fox acted as an advisor too. Pleased with these, the lion left some portion of the meat when it hunts, for the fox and its friends to feast on.
Once, the lion, broke its back bones in a fight with an elephant.
This rendered the lion unfit to hunt and it went hungry for a few days in a stretch. Along with the lion, Fox too starved.
The lion urged the fox to make arrangement for its food, some how.
The fox remembered its friend, the donkey in the village.
It went to the village and made several attempts to convince the donkey to follow it to the forest for a happy future.
After several arguments, the flattery worked.
The Fox explained that there was a dearth of healthy and handsome Male Donkeys in the forest. Fox promised the donkey to introduce to its suitors in the forest,
Finally the Donkey yielded and followed the fox to the forest. The long walk made the donkey weak and tired.
As soon as both the donkey and fox reached the lion's den, the lion jumped at the donkey and killed it in a single blow.
The grateful lion shared lthe LionIs share of the kill l with the fox (for bringing the donkey to its den, to feast on) and honored it.
Lessons from this story: The Three friends -
Lion, Fox and Donkey
The three animals Represent three different extremes of behavior among animals. Strangely, that does not make them live apart from one another but have strong interplay too. This is true of us too. In our friend's circle, we have people who are entirely different in their thinking and behavior.
Even as one choose a life