Panchatantra

The Panchatantra is a fable that has a beautiful message. As a personal comment, it is my favorite indian fable. As all the fables, it has talking animals as the center of the story. This fable teaches us that pride is not a good thing and that bad things can happen if your pride is too big. In this fable we find a lion, named Numskull, who was very bad toward the other animals. He was cruel and had a lot of pride. One day, a very clever rabbit decided to fool and outsmart Numskull. Trying to show his pride, he was tricked by the clever rabbit and died. Now the lesson of this story is that when you are powerful in any way, you have to use that power in orther to help the others. If you use it to do bad things and take advantage, someone that is more clever than you can trick you as the rabbit did to the lion, and you can be really hurt. If you take good decitions as a powerful leader, a lot of people can take advantage.