Passage 10

In English

There is a small example for this. A dog got hold of a dry bone and put it in its mouth with the intention of eating it. However much the dog tried to eat the dry bone, it was not able to get any essence or juice out of that. In its desire to get something out of that dry bone, it bit hard with its teeth. The sharp portion of the dry bone cut into the soft mouth of the dog. Immediately, blood started flowing out of the mouth of the dog. The dog then thought that, at last, out of the bone was coming some juice, some blood, and it started sucking its own blood with great pleasure. The dog was not aware the blood had come from within itself. When you look at this story, you will realise that we are also more or less in the same position. So long as we remain in this ignorance, it means we are like dogs.