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Once upon a time, long, long ago and far, far
away, there was a beautiful jungle.
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In the jungle there lived a very
big, lazy and old lion.
The lion was not a kind and
compassionate lion. 4
 Being the King of the jungle, the lion
summoned all the animals and gave this Oh!
What a
order, "Everyday, one of you must come by cruel and
yourself as my prey, otherwise I will destroy terrible
all of you and the the whole jungle." lion! 5
 Oh, Poor Animals! The animals had a meeting. They
They believed they were too scared of the fierce lion,
had no choice. ‘The King of The Jungle’ – a
No one knew how to
solve the problem. ferocious beast. So all the animals
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agreed to obey his order.
The animals planned to go one by one.
They believed they had no choice. Poor
They were afraid the lion would kill all Animals!
and destroy the jungle if they did not They could
follow the order. not think of a
way out! 7
 How cruel and The lazy lion was happy with his
terrible the lion easy way of killing and eating his
is. How can prey. Days went by. Many animals
this be
had to sacrifice their lives.
stopped?
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The day came when it was the turn of
the rabbits. It’s so sad that
an innocent
They had a meeting to pick one to go
rabbit has to
to the lion’s den as prey. die.
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 Oh! Why must Unexpectedly a little rabbit
this innocent voluntarily agreed to go to
little rabbit have
to die? the lion's den
and be its prey. 10
 The little rabbit reached the Oh, will the
lion's den very late. The angry angry lion
pounce on the
lion roared at the little rabbit little rabbit and
and asked, "Why are you late?" kill him? 11
 Oh My! Will The rabbit acted wisely and told the King of
the angry lion the Jungle "I met another lion on the way
believe the here. He is bigger than you. It threatened to
story of the
eat me. I ran as fast as I could to tell you
rabbit? 12
about this dangerous lion."
 The lion angrily asked the rabbit I think the
"Do you know where he lives?". The clever little
rabbit replied, “Yes.” He then asked rabbit has a
plan to trick the
the lion to follow him.
old angry lion.
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Will the lion fall
The rabbit reached an old well
for the little and said to the lion, The King
rabbit’s trick? of The Jungle, "That lion lives
What will he do? in this well."
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 The foolish lion peeped into
Oh Please!
the well and mistook his own Lion, Jump in
reflection as another lion and and attack the
he roared loudly. other ‘Lion’!
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Pride, Ego, Anger and
Foolishness cause
Hearing the echo of his own roar, the
the end of the old lion got very angry. He jumped into the
Lion, The King of the well to attack the other ‘lion’. The old
Jungle. angry lion drowned in the well. 16
The End The End

That was the end of the lion and all

animals lived happily in the jungle.
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 If your mind Having
is more calm Loving-
and steady, Intelligence
kindness and
you can and Wisdom
compassion
think better. are great
for all beings
qualities to
is very
help one solve
important.
problems.

Pride, Ego,
Anger, Self-
Centredness,
Heedlessness
and Cruelty will
bring about a
downfall. 19