The Fall of the Lion. Once upon a time there were great Lions who walked with pride in the African Savana. They had no worries and no fears, they were the Kings of the Jungle. They leisurely and calmly lived their lives, and witnessed the wonder of Mother Nature. They lived naturally and their long manes flowed and made them look formidable. Then came the Zoo keeper, who tried to persuade the Lion to leave the Savana. At first the Lions refused to go, and this went on for som
e time. The Zoo keeper had an idea, he said ' Oh Great Great Lions you stay here I will hunt for you and bring you your food.' At first only a few of the Lions were happy with this but most of them kept hunting. Two groups slowly formed, who started to argue with each other. One group liked the Zoo keeper for bringing meat, the other group hated him. The group who stopped hunting got lazy. They asked the Zoo keeper what are we meant to do all day? He brought them some Whisky, and said 'here have this'! At first they smelt it and they said no it smells disgusting. The Zoo keeper said you think to much, just have a sip. They had a sip and it made them roar, they enjoyed it, but they started fighting with their brothers even more. They became weak, and disrespected their Lionesses and cubs. Some of the drunk Lions said 'we don't need females here, get rid of them before they are born, as we have to share out meat with them!' More and more of the Lions were getting lazy, and more and more started to drink. Then one day their leader said to the Zoo keeper 'you keep telling us of this great Zoo, I am bored here now, can we go and see it'. The Zoo keeper said 'sure, but you have to live in a cage to protect you. You can't wonder around free and we will give you all the meat and whisky you need.' The Lions now were so bored they agreed. For a while they missed the Savana and the beauty of nature but after a while they got used to the cage, and forget where they came from. If ever they left the cage they felt insecure. One day the Zoo keeper came he said, 'Oh great Lions, there are more Sheep here, don't you think you would look better if you all looked the same? Here take these scissors and cut your manes off, you don't hunt, so you don't need them anymore.' After a while the Lions forgot to roar, they lost their pride, and their only said was 'mai mai mai' like a Sheep.Year after year the Lions stopped hunting, they got lazy, left the Savana, ended up in the Zoos, they became lazy and drunk, forget their language and an endangered specie. The only word they learnt from the sheep was 'mai'. Dear brothers and sisters this is the state of the Khalsa Panth at the moment. By Das Akali Nihang Kamalroop Singh.www.akalinihang.blogspot.com
