THE LION THAT SPRANG TO LIFE

This is the story of four learned that a Àne opportunity to display their and knowledgeable friends. Well, powers had presented itself. the fourth one, Subuddhi, wasn·t The Àrst friend used his skills to exactly well educated or insightful in assemble the bones into a skeleton. any sense but he possessed the one When the skeleton was ready, the quality that his intellectual friends did second friend chanted a mantra, which not: common sense. lead to the formation of Áesh and

A day arrived when three of the meat on the skeleton. It looked like a friends decided to go looking for lifeless lion. Just as the third friend jobs in distant towns and villages. was about to end the show by bringing They wanted monetary gain for their the lion back to life, the fourth friend knowledge. After all, there was no stopped him. Subuddhi knew that once use of being so learned in scriptures the ferocious lion was brought back to and sciences if they were not going to life, it wouldn·t spare them. gain anything back from it. The three However, the third friend ignored friends did not wish to take Subuddhi his advice, made fun of him and went along because of his lack of intellect ahead with something that was clearly but since he was an old childhood a bad idea. Subuddhi quickly climbed friend, they decided to invite him too. up a tree nearby to protect himself

The four friends set out on a long as the third friend began to chant, journey, moving from one town to thereby bringing the lion back to life. another in search of a way to earn As predicted by the fourth friend, money. While passing through a dense the lion killed all three of the learned forest, they discovered a bunch of friends while Subuddhi rushed back to bones lying under a tree. They decided the village, alive. Moral:Knowledge without common sense is nothing.