Chinna Katha - 12 (The World Conference of Animals) (Short Story: As told by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai Baba)

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12. THE WORLD CONFERENCE OF ANIMALS

 

Man is the noblest of all animals, the final product of unfolds ages of

progressive evolution; but he is not consciously striving to live up to his

heritage.

 

The beasts held a World conference, to confabulate on the authenticity of man’s

claim to be the some of creation and the monarch of all that walks the earth.

 

The Lion presided over the deliberation. The tiger questioned the claims of man;

The leopard seconded the resolution of emphatic protest.

 

It made a devastating speech, condemning man, “He is a standing disgrace to

animals everywhere.

 

He manufactures and drinks merrily fatal poisons and is proud of his utter foolishness.

 

He cheats his own kind and spends all his energies and resources in devising

diabolic weapons to wipe out his sisters and brothers.

 

He prods horses and dogs to run in desperate haste and gambles his earnings

away, while they gallop along the track.

 

He is cruel, greedy, immortal, insatiable and unashamed.

 

He sets a bad example to the animal world.

 

Though endowed with superior emotions and intelligence, his behavior is

disgusting and demeaning”, he said.

 

“We do not know if and where we will get our next meal; we have no sure place to

rest. We have nothing to wrap round ourselves, except the skin. But, yet the

least of us is far worthier child of God than this monster called man.” He

concluded.

 

The fox rose and added, “We have a reason when we mate, but, man, I am ashamed

to say, has broken all regulations and cares for no restraint. He is a law

unto himself and a disaster to the rest”.

 

The lion rose, to sum up the arguments. He agreed with the general trend of the

tirade against man, provoked by his undeserved claim to supremacy. But, he

refused too far all with the same brush.

 

He distinguished between men who are bestial and worse, and men who have

transcended their bestial past by the proper use of the special gifts of

discrimination and detachment.

 

The latter, he said, ought to be received by all beasts as Masters, while the

former deserved severe reprisals and condemnation.

(from the Book: "CHINNA KATHA" (Short Story, as told by Bhagavan Sri Satya Sai BABA))

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