Be a Lion, Not a Dog — A Teaching That Guided Dada Vaswani f
When Dada Vaswani was a young boy, he once saw a monk sitting quietly nearby. With innocent curiosity, he walked up and asked,
“Will you give me some wisdom?”
The monk smiled and replied,
“My child, be a lion — not a dog.”
Puzzled, Dada asked,
“What does that mean?”
The monk explained,
“When you throw a ball in front of a dog, it runs after the ball.
But when you throw something at a lion, the lion doesn’t chase it. His eyes remain on you. He’s focused on the source.”
He paused and said,
“Don’t chase after incidents or distractions. Go to the source. Always.”
That one lesson stayed with Dada Vaswani all his life — a quiet reminder to stay centered, focused, and wise.
The story also has a inner spiritual meaning, do not focus on the forms of people, their color or creed, even their words and actions, when you look at people, look at them as the spirit, for the spirit within all is the same, it is the supre being itself.
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