PARABLES OF RAMA - Hindu Online

Parables of Ramawon't draw the tail. I will draw the other parts of thelion”. The barber took up the needle again, and justpricked it through his skin. This too the fellow couldnot bear. He remonstrated and said, "What are yougoing to do next?” The barber said, "I am going todraw the ears of the lion”. The man said again, "Obarber, you are very foolish. Don't you know thepeople cut off the ears of their dogs? They don'tkeep dogs with long ears. Don't you know that thelion which is without ears is the best?" The barberdesisted. After a while the barber took up his needleand was again pricking him. The man could not bearit and remonstrated, saying, "What are you going todo now, O barber?" The barber said, “I am going topaint now the waist of the lion." There the man said,"Haven't you read our poetry, haven‟t you read theaccounts given by Indian poets? Lions are alwayspainted as having a very small, thin, nominal waist?.You need not draw the waist of the lion." Thebarber now threw aside his colours and his paintingneedle and asked the fellow to go away from hispresence.Here is a man who asserts that he is born under theinfluence of the sign of the Zodiac called the SinhaRashi or Leo. Here is a man who pretends to be a389