The Lion And The Cub (A Story I Love To Tell)

Once there was a lioness in a forest. She was pregnant, about to deliver, but she is hungry, she only has to work and get the food! So she went hunting. When she jumped to attack a sheep, it became a little too much. Instead of killing the sheep, she fell on the ground. The blow was so much that she delivered the baby and died. The cub was born and the mother died.

All the sheep ran hither and thither, but suddenly they found that nobody is attacking them, and no sound! They turned back and saw that the lioness was dead. And near the lioness there was a small cub, a cute cub, trying to look here and there and play around, roll on the mud and all. These guys go there near to see what it is and they say, "Baaaaaaaaa". And they see a small baby that doesn't know what to do. That baby just started jumping and trying to bite some female sheep and trying to drink milk. And the female sheep, really she felt compassionate and she allowed the cub to drink. And the sheep took the cub with them and the fellow started growing there. Slowly, slowly, he started eating grass just like any other sheep and started making the same sound – bleating - and he was growing. Everything was going smooth, he was even about to fall in love with a female sheep and start his new relationship and life. Everything was going well, nothing wrong.

Suddenly one day, a big storm happened! A lion saw this whole

flock of sheep - and one lion cub running around with the sheep! He was shocked; surprised. But before he could do anything, the whole flock of sheep ran away. Next day, the lion again came back to the same place, waited for this flock to move, and he just jumped and caught only that cub. And that fellow started bleating same way, "Baa, baa, leave me, leave me!"

The lion caught the neck and said, "Ey! What are you doing in this group?"

This fellow said, "I am a sheep, where else will I be? What am I doing? I am grazing and eating grass."

This lion looks and understands that nothing can be told. And this fellow is begging, "Leave me, leave me, leave me!", so the lion takes the hands off and this fellow runs as fast as he can and goes and joins the sheep. And next day again he waits, again he jumps and catches the same cub, holds him by neck and say, "Look, you are a lion. You are not sheep. Don't be stupid."

That fellow starts screaming, "No, no, no, I am a sheep! I am a sheep! Leave me! Leave me to be with my people!"

The lion says, "Alright."

He takes his hands off, and the cub runs as fast as he can, joins his team, and goes back. But that night he was not able to sleep. That night that cub was thinking, "What is this? That fellow was talking something stupid, but he seems to be compassionate, otherwise why he did not kill me and eat me? He left me (experience after seeing first day satsang, or Kalpataru touch). Hmmm, he did not kill me, he left me, why? No, no, no, he is telling I am lion, he has some big plan, he has some conspiracy. Maybe he is going to take five lakh out of me and make me do Inner Awakening. He has some larger plan. No, no, no, he is not a good guy! Come on, let me be with my mother sheep, father sheep, brother sheep, girlfriend sheep and everything."

Come on! Pull the blanket and try to sleep! But those eyes which looked into your eyes, coming again, not letting you sleep. Next day morning, you try to get up and join the whole team. But before coming near the region where the lion was there for last two or three days, when you are coming near that area, you have a doubt, "Should we go again in that same area? Why not we tell all these fellows to change the route? But will they listen to me? We have come all the way! I'll quickly run before he catches me! Run as fast as you can, but again he runs faster than you, because he is a lion you are a cub - and he catches you!

"Ey, did you think about what I told? You are a lion."

"No, no, no! I did not think about anything! Don't talk to me! I am not interested in what you are saying! I have my father, mother, new girlfriend. Did you not see my selfie with her on Facebook? I am getting engaged soon. Don't disturb my life! Everything is going smooth."

This fellow, now, holds his neck in such a way it was more the touch of love than the touch of harshness and he says, "Alright, but listen. At least once, try to look into the mirror, see my face and see your face in the mirror."

The cub does not understand what is mirror. He runs along with the team, goes and sleeps. That whole night he is thinking, "What is mirror? What is mirror? What he is telling me to do? Why should he everyday catch me but not eat me? Why is he letting me go every day? What is mirror?"

Next day, the cub comes with the group on the same route. This time he stands at a distance and asks, "Can you tell what is mirror?"

"You can't get mirror in the forest, go and see in the river water or in the pond water in the silent night! That is only thing you can do!"

The fellow from there itself runs, doesn't want to come near.

Runs! By now the touch, two three time has made his biomemory believe he is a good guy. Logic says no no, you have a girlfriend, boyfriend, mother, father, so many things; your business. And you are the largest retailer of grass.

And, come on! What is this? And that fellow looks so arrogant, he is sitting on such big throne and with the large hair! When he opens the hair, looks terrifying! Forget about it.

Then in the night you slowly open up a conversation with your girlfriend. "See I saw that fellow, and he told me like that. I am confused." As if she is going to give the solution..!

"What! What do you mean by talking to all of those fellows? Why are you talking to everyone? Is he a male or female?" (arey insecurity)

And this fellow understood, he opened the wrong subject with the wrong person. And he said, "Ok, ok, ok forget about it. What is there, it's ok. Come on, let's talk something good. What happened yesterday? Did the grass was nice? How was your day? Let's talk nice things." t slowly, in the midnight, he thinks' Why not try to go and see that pond water in the moonlight and see how I look, because now I know how he looks?"

He slowly goes, he sees the moon, he sees the silent water, he puts his head - "Waaaaaaaaaaa! Lion is there!"

And he jumps back. "That fellow is sitting here to catch me and eat me! Because we were all as a group he was afraid to kill me, because my father, mother, girlfriend, boyfriend were there, they will protect me, that is why he is now calling me alone! To kill me! He is calling me alone to finish me off. No!"

Then he thinks, "But there is no sound, how can that fellow be inside?"

He is brilliant, so he looks around for the footprint. But he sees no footprint. No footprint.

But it is Atma Murti, how will that have footprint??

And this fellow, "Did I get confused? Am I hallucinating? Am I in illusion? Eh, after all I am a young man, if I am so frightened how will my girlfriend respect me? I think I should have a clarity before getting married, I don't want to get married in this confusion. Today I should decide this way or that way! (that is almost the decision I think I should buy a ticket for Varanasi, I should book the flight ticket for Varanasi)

And this fellow slowly putting one leg, one leg, looking at the moon, looking at the water, once more stretches, this time not screaming but seems the fellow is inside. And he creates sound, 'Rrrrrrrrr! Nnnnnnnn!' and puts a little mud, throws a little sand on the water. And now he sees that form is distorted, disturbed, so if he is inside by now he should have come out. He's not coming out. Then what it is? Slowly puts the face once more.

"Doesn't seem to be he is inside, let me check. The mouth is moving. Let me show one hand. Oh! Seems to be my reflection only. Maybe this fellow has conspired and did some magic here, it is showing his form as my form. No. No, there is some big game here. There is some game. No."

He comes back. That much he is convinced that his form only is reflecting there but he doesn't know why he is having that guys form, not his mother's or father's or girlfriend's. So that much he is confused. And comes back. What to do? He feels, "Somebody is lying to me, trying to cheat me. Either that fellow, or these fellows. Who is trying to cheat me? Society or Guru?" The confusion. "These fellows tell in one way, he tells in the other way. He seem to be nice guy, because he doesn't need to lead me so many times."

So next day morning, he comes in the same group, same team, same road. At a distance he stands and waits -but that day the lion did not come. And he is standing there and waiting, thinking, "What is this, today he has not come! The whole flock of sheep is moving and they are walking as usual, and the cub is thinking, "Ey come quickly, I have to talk to you and go, my team is waiting.

But the lion did not come; he is hiding behind the rock and seeing what is going on here.

The cub looks this side and that side. These fellows are walking, and he is afraid to be alone here. "I have to now choose whether I should join them or wait to see him!"

And suddenly he hears the sneezing sound, "Achooo!" He knows the lion is standing there behind the rock.

"Eyyyy! Come out! Why are you hiding?"

The lion slowly walks out and asks, "What? Did you see in the pond?"

"Yes, yes I saw! I saw that you are trying to play a trick! You have put your form there in the water!"

The lion says, "No, that is not my form, it is your form!"

"No, no, no, I know you are trying to cheat me!"

He says, "No! Then go and try to put your feet on him, hands on him, then you will understand it is your form."

The cub runs to the team.

That day he is trying to check out (that is the next level of initiation, experiencing deeper level of completion). And that night he goes, up moon, down water. He put the leg and he sees yes, oh God! He is not there under. Then, am I? No, no, no! I know thoroughly.

And by today his girlfriend recognizes that he is not normal, he is not as usual, and she is screaming, "Why are you not picking up my call! Why are you not answering my call! Why are you not responding to my message! You are not on Facebook, you are not watching TV, you are not on the phone what is going on in your life? Are you planning for engagement or not! What do you mean!" (drill, drill, drill, drill, drill)

And this fellow says, "Leave me, for two days. Give me a few days, I just want to be myself."

"And I know from the day you saw that fellow from Banglore you are doing all these crazy things. And have you not heard about so many scandals about him?"

And drill, drill, drill, drill, drill, drill goes on. And this fellow actually kept the phone like that and he is in peace. After that when she sees that there is no response she disconnected the phone. He drops the phone and he is not able to sit with himself.

Today much before that sheep arrived he came to that spot and he is waiting.

"I checked yesterday! I went to the pond."

From the other side, only a voice is heard, "Did you listen? I told you it is not me."

From there he shouts, "Then who is it?"

"Arrey, whether you understand or not, it is you!"

"How can that be?"

By now this fellow developed a little courage. Asking all these questions, he slowly started walking towards where the lion was but not too close! And this fellow is sitting, maybe under a Banyan tree. And this fellow from a little distance ready to run with that high alert, ears up, legs straight, tail straight, "Then who is he?"

"Ey. It is YOU. How many times I am telling you, it is you."

"No no! From the time I am born I know I am a sheep!"

"Ey, find your root pattern. First moment you started feeling you are a sheep, when you started thinking you are a sheep."

"What is root pattern?"

"Find the moment when you started thinking you are a sheep, and who told you that you are a sheep."

"My uncle told me!"

"Is your being is comfortable and ok with you believing you are a sheep?"

"No, no, there is always discomfort, but I don't know why. Maybe because I don't have enough grass stock for my future, and my girlfriend's mouth is a little long and she is not that beautiful. If that can be done by plastic surgery and I accumulate enough grass for my whole life, then I will be comfortable and settled."

He says, "No, you cannot. You will not be able to settle with the plastic surgery or all the wealth accumulation. You need to understand who you are."

"I am confused! For last three days my girlfriend is not talking to me, my business is not going well, I have left all my business and came here to see you."

"Ok. Can you try to find out when you started believing you are the sheep."

"Ok, ok."

By that time, he feels a little bored, and he is afraid that the flock of sheep has gone a long distance and he is all alone. The moment he realized he is all alone, he ran! And the lion is just sitting. relaxed.

Next day, for the first time he comes without his whole team, all alone, a little early, early morning 4.30 or 5 a.m. itself. But again he maintains a safe distance.

"I was thinking the whole night. But there are many questions about it."

The lion says, "Alright. Come on, ask the questions. Give the mic to him!"

"You are saying I am a lion. But all these years I grew up along with the other sheep, they gave me food, I ate like them, I slept like them, I bleated like them, I did everything like them. How can you say that? How is it possible? I think you have some other plan. What is your plan? Why are you telling me all this?"

The lion says, "I have no plan and I have no vested interests. If you want, every night, go and see in the pond, in the moonlight who you are and meditate (means practice completion on your own). Then you pick up the mirror, put your face into it, "When did I first think I am sheep?"

"There was a day, I was trying to sleep outside, the sheep, my uncle who really cares for me came and slapped and dragged me inside the team and put me to sleep with my mother. But he cares for me no."

"No, did you feel that at that time?"

"Ok. It is still confusing but not convincing."

Whole night he does completion with the root pattern.

Second day, he comes without the sheep – a little closer, but not to the level where he can touch the lion.

He says, "I think I trust you, because every day I come… if you want, if you have any vested interests, you could have killed me and eaten me on Day One, but you did not do so. I trust you, but still, I am confused about what you are talking. Yesterday whole night I remembered that many times I have seen in my life that my friends feel that I am different, and they can't handle even if I slap them in a

friendly way. I am thinking through all that from last night. And I also started doubting that I may not completely belong to that society and what they are trying to tell me. I am not completely convinced about them, but I am also not completely convinced about you! But today, I just want to tell you that I brought something."

The lion smiles and asks, "What did you bring?"

"The best grass! I am a grass retailer, I brought the best grass, we all enjoy it. I'll leave it here, will you also eat little bit?"

And lion says, "Why? Why did you bring grass?"

This fellow, feeling little fear and shy altogether, just drops the grass and runs to a certain distance and says, "I brought it because I love you!" and runs away.

And the next day when the cub is back he sees lion is sitting on that grass, wow! Then the cub asks, "Did you eat that grass, was it nice?"

So the lion just picks up one or two blades of grass, so that the cub feels, "Wow, then my love is accepted!" The lion has to act as if he is trying to chew the grass and eat it. And the cub asks, "Was it nice? Shall I bring a little more every day?"

The lion smiles and says, "Ok, but bring organic grass!"

By now the cub has become a little comfortable with the lion, and now he comes and hands over the remaining grass in his hand itself. When the lion took the grass, he slowly put his hand on the cub, and even then he was conscious of whether he is grabbing his neck or hugging him. Ok. And slowly his nervousness settles down and puts his hand around and says, "Ey, I am telling you, I have no vested interests, I am not here to cheat you. I am not here to waste your time, waste your life. I am here to reveal the real you to you and that's all matters. "

The cub looks into the eyes of the lion and sees the powerfulness and compassion. His being has already started listening to the lion.

Now the cub knows he cannot deny the lion completely, but he is afraid –"What will happen to my business? And I am the largest organic grass seller in my whole area! What will happen to my mother, father and so many other things I left, and am I? Am I? Am I?" And he is sitting with all that.

If, if, if I become lion what will happen to my life? Who will give me food? Who will give me whatever I want? Now the sheep is there, my business is running well and my family is taking care of me, my girlfriend shouts when I don't pick up the phone or whatever, but she is always there whenever I have a problem, always she is there standing by me (husband is the person who always stands by you during all the problems which would have never happened if he is not there in your life) and he always stands by me.

And then today he comfortably sat next to him and it was a very nice feeling, without that crowd disturbance, he is just sitting. And suddenly the lion roars, "Roaaaarrrrrrr!" (Shivoham sound... Shaaaambhavi!)

And the cub says, "Hey! See your voice is different, my voice is different!"

Lion says, "Don't worry, wait. Come for a few more days."

"No, no, no, maybe what you are are saying is right, but that is not right for me.

And lion says, "Ok. Come back tomorrow. "

And then again the next day..! By now this fellow has become very comfortable, he has started bringing all the best things he can collect - a little sheep milk in a flask and the best grass, imported grass, from the other part of the mountain, the other part of the hill. And by now he started coming secretly, because he was afraid of all the sheep - what they will talk about me if they know I am going to this Swami?!

And he comes and puts all his offerings before the lion and touches his feet.

"What did you bring today?"

"The best sheep milk, and imported grass."

"Ok, ok, leave it there. And today I have something for you to eat."

"What?" asks the cub.

This lion brings out a plateful of meat.

"Arghhhhh! How can I eat this? I am a sheep!"

"Ey, let's both of us eat together, come on, sit."

"Is he trying to poison me? Oh, he is eating from the same plate… then ok." So this fellow picks up a little and puts in his mouth - from the same side where the lion picked ut up!

The meat goes inside, and slowly the digestion happens (means the first initiation after Shivoham). Once that food went inside, before he picked up the second piece, he tried to bleat, but the sound came out as "Rrrrrrrrrr!" What! The sound looks like a mixture of bleating and roaring. He puts the second piece, and by the third piece it was almost like roaring.

He gets frightened. "No, you are trying to do something, you are up to something. You have a plan."

Now the lion feels responsible, and he just catches him by the neck. The cub is not completely frightened that he will be killed, but he feels, "Hey why are you catching me so tightly, leave me!"

But the lion has kept a mirror, and he just puts the mirror in front of the cub and says, "Look and see who you are!"

"Oh! That is your photograph?"

The lion shakes his head and says, "Look who you are! Do you see it is shaking?"

"Yes, yes, you are shaking na?"

"See, I am stable. See the mirror. See!"

"Actually, I am shaking."

Then he throws the mirror and turns, "LOOK INTO MY EYES!"

The moment both eyes met, merged, (awakening of the third eye), the fellow roars, "YES! IT IS ME!"

Both go for an evening walk by the banks of the Ganga.

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