Please reflect on the post.
In the light of globalisation, awakening our inner self i.e. our competence has become essential. Within us, we have three levels of personalities. One is what we believe ourselves to be, second is what this society is endorsed with, the third one is, the real self.
In the first level, we are limiting to our capabilities and third level is our true potentiality.
In the second level, society endorses us with certain expectations and it is not so easy to meet with the expectations of the society. If we are trapped with the endorsements made by the society, we will be in a rat race and never reach our destiny.
Once in a forest, a tigress died after giving birth to a baby tiger. One shepherd had seen it and out of compassion he picked up the tiger cub and had given milk and nurtured it along with other sheep. The tiger cub was growing and behaving like other sheep in the group. Even it was sounding like a sheep and not realising that it is a tiger but not a sheep. Days were passing and time and again the tiger cub was taught by the peer group and its community that she is weak and cannot face big animals like tigers because she is a sheep. And it was repeatedly told that it should be careful towards the tiger which will charge them and kill them. The life ambition of a sheep, it was preached, is to eat leaves produce more sheep and serve the shepherd. Accordingly her mindset was developed. One day a tiger came in to the forest and roared. All the sheep runaway out of fear and the tiger cub was not an exemption. The tiger saw the tiger cub running and caught it and tried to convince the tiger cub to realise that it is a tiger and not a sheep to runaway. The tiger cub did not believe the words of the tiger and was shivering out of fear. After, all the efforts were in vain, to make the tiger cub to realise its true nature, the tiger took it to the water and showed its reflection in the water. After, seeing its reflection, the tiger cub understood the difference between the sheep and herself. Slowly it could identify its nature with the tiger and realised that it is not a sheep but a tiger. Then it has recognised its true power and changed its behaviour and could walk and roar like a tiger.
Then what is the difference between these two states of a tiger cub? Earlier it was thinking that it was a sheep and did not try even to exhibit its capacities. The illusions injected into its mind were strengthened and spread over like a cancer in its mind frame, thought frame and in conception frame. Once when it realised that it was not a sheep but a tiger, illumination sparked in its mind and it could come out of that illusion and behaved like a tiger. It doesn’t mean that a sheep should feel and exhibit like a lion but a sheep should exhibit its best out of a sheep and a lion should get its best out of a lion. This is what a Positive self attitude is, and it is required for everyone.
Your response in this regard is highly appreciated and acknowledged thankfully.
Rama Murthy
In the first level, we are limiting to our capabilities and third level is our true potentiality.
In the second level, society endorses us with certain expectations and it is not so easy to meet with the expectations of the society. If we are trapped with the endorsements made by the society, we will be in a rat race and never reach our destiny.
Once in a forest, a tigress died after giving birth to a baby tiger. One shepherd had seen it and out of compassion he picked up the tiger cub and had given milk and nurtured it along with other sheep. The tiger cub was growing and behaving like other sheep in the group. Even it was sounding like a sheep and not realising that it is a tiger but not a sheep. Days were passing and time and again the tiger cub was taught by the peer group and its community that she is weak and cannot face big animals like tigers because she is a sheep. And it was repeatedly told that it should be careful towards the tiger which will charge them and kill them. The life ambition of a sheep, it was preached, is to eat leaves produce more sheep and serve the shepherd. Accordingly her mindset was developed. One day a tiger came in to the forest and roared. All the sheep runaway out of fear and the tiger cub was not an exemption. The tiger saw the tiger cub running and caught it and tried to convince the tiger cub to realise that it is a tiger and not a sheep to runaway. The tiger cub did not believe the words of the tiger and was shivering out of fear. After, all the efforts were in vain, to make the tiger cub to realise its true nature, the tiger took it to the water and showed its reflection in the water. After, seeing its reflection, the tiger cub understood the difference between the sheep and herself. Slowly it could identify its nature with the tiger and realised that it is not a sheep but a tiger. Then it has recognised its true power and changed its behaviour and could walk and roar like a tiger.
Then what is the difference between these two states of a tiger cub? Earlier it was thinking that it was a sheep and did not try even to exhibit its capacities. The illusions injected into its mind were strengthened and spread over like a cancer in its mind frame, thought frame and in conception frame. Once when it realised that it was not a sheep but a tiger, illumination sparked in its mind and it could come out of that illusion and behaved like a tiger. It doesn’t mean that a sheep should feel and exhibit like a lion but a sheep should exhibit its best out of a sheep and a lion should get its best out of a lion. This is what a Positive self attitude is, and it is required for everyone.
Your response in this regard is highly appreciated and acknowledged thankfully.
Rama Murthy
1 comment:
This is apt for the current situation in the society.
"we are trapped with the endorsements made by the society" ... this statement is what I feel the crux of the entire blog.
There is a word in Sanskrit to describe the stature of mind. The word is "ANYAKAARA", which is societal image of you.
If the Anyakaara of the person is not as per societal expectation, then you are treated as abnormal.
Whatever the societal expectation is, A sheep can never be a Tiger and A Tiger can never behave like a sheep. The story of the blog is just a trap of the TIME (Kaala).
If we speak about the blog, A tiger cub joined a sheep herd. When the baby tiger met the real tiger, the baby tiger understood its own reality.
Once we meet God/Guru/Teacher, we (humans) can understand our own reality which is the path for dissolution.
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