SELF-DISCOVERY in Advaita Vedanta: Story of 'The Confused Lion'

This traditional Vedantic parable tells the story of a lion cub who grew up in a herd of sheep, believing that he, too, was a sheep. Just like the lion failed to recognize his true nature as king of the jungle, we fail to recognize our true nature as unborn, limitless consciousness. The solution to the lion's problem, and ours, is revealed in this delightful story.

The divinity within you, called atma, is ever-present, yet unrecognized due to ignorance (avidya, ajnana). The teaching of of the rishis, the sages of ancient India. can lead you to discover atma as sat chit ananda, unborn, limitless consciousness, and gain moksha, enlightenment.

[satoshisaito]

I wish it was that easy to let go of the false beliefs.

[alkadeshmukh]

🙏 blessed to have you in my life. Jai Guru Dev!

[SreenivasaMurthy]

Excellent!
Swāmiji said somewhere that“ teaching is not telling!”
He said, teaching means to create a conducive situation where a student can not help but discover what you want them to discover.
The teaching here is truly leading to contemplation.
Pranāms!

[ritesh]

I was struggling with my mindset, constantly shifting from a state of bliss to a state of wordly mess. I wondered what is the reason for such constant shifting, why am I not able to be in a permanent state of bliss and then YouTube recommends me this video.😃

[vladimirkrisnov]

Beautiful way to teach Vedanta. Parables always reach deep in the heart.

[ketherwhale]

I love the animation. This story is so relevant now.

[belenoche]

Thank you Guruji for animations . It helps kids to get involved in the meaningful life’s teaching at a very young age.

[anamikaabaddha]

Wonderful parable with excellent explanation. Thanks Swami Ji

[Baptized_in_Fire.]

Illuminating. Best fable I've heard in a long time

[Multi]

Your pronunciation and explanation is mind blowing. Yes indeed due to ignorance we fail to know about are real nature. If we all know about our self then the world would have been different.

[hikenepalofficial]

Eye opening story, thank you. Namaste from Nepal !

[ZENderista]

Beautiful story. Thanks a million for this piece of wisdom.

[ajantagogoi]

I am tremendously thankful to you Swamiji for your blissful guidence .

[prakashvakil]

Aatmiya GURUJI.
Hare Krsna.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Loving you one and all Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.

[avinashlilmohan]

Absolutely love ur informative videos thank you swami

[surrao]

🙏Every word measured & so well articulated, Swamiji.🙏

[BrainFoodCafe]

beautiful story by a beautiful human. you are more Indian and Hindu than most Indians could ever be. Thank you for your service to humanity. Namaste. <3 :)

[bluesky]

This is such an eye-opening story. Have heard it before but not so effectively presented as a cartoon video with nice music and the explanation with right pause. Thanks Swamiji🙏 as a habit like seeing mirror, perhaps we need to see this video often to remember our true divinity and shirk the habit of false-identity!

[SrikantNaladala]

Excellent Advaita story - Thank you Gurudev 🙏 - I am using your screen shots & your commentary to present this in my Guruji's Satsang with credits to you & your lineage. Thank you so much 🙏

[selfseeker]

Vedantha(teachings) TELLS the truth,
Gurus (Self realized lion) SHOWS the truth.
That's why guru is very important. If we are really serious in our search, Guru will definitely come and show the truth - My guru Ramana Maharshi, I'm waiting for him.