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of prey. He wandered a lot but could not catch any prey. The pangs of hunger were getting stronger in the stomach. The Lion was in agony. About that time he saw a mouse. A beast like Lion does not generally kill such tiny creatures. They too have a pride of their own. Since they are strong themselves, they prefer to meet their match. But what to do? Hunger was burning in the stomach.
He raised his paw to kill the mouse. But the tiny mouse was very wise. He spoke in a pleading tone, "O King of the Jungle! What will you get by killing me? This tiny body of mine is not going to meet your hunger. Let me go!" But the Lion could not bear the hunger. He said, "No! I am going to kill you." But the mouse appealed, "O King of the Jungle! Do let me go, I can be of some use to you some day!" The Lion thought, "Of what good will this tiny thing be to me?" And so the so called cruel Lion took pity of the mouse and let him go.
The mouse became a friend of the Lion. Every day, he would come and play a little with the Lion and go away. So it was when he came one day and found the Lion stuck in a net, looking pathetic. The more the Lion tried to escape the net, the more entangled he got. The mouse asked, "What is this? Who did this to you? Aha! You are only stuck in the net! Not to worry, I shall get you free!" And then the mouse set about biting the net and slowly cut through it. He got the Lion free! That tiny mouse had got a great beast - the King of the Jungle - freed!
Brothers! Think! Who cut the net? The sharpness of the mouse's teeth. Sudharma - Swadharma - does much the same thing by freeing the atmas stuck in the bonds of material world. There is no tool sharper than Swadharma.
And the other thing - the mouse had affection for the Lion. That feeling of affection made him take up the task. Brothers! We have to free our own atma, so let us love our atma. We have
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