The Smart Jackal

The following story is from U. Mahesh Prabhu’s upcoming book TIMELESS TALES OF A WISE SAGE. 

The wise who wrongs another,
Pursuing selfish good,
Should keep his plans a secret,
As jackal did in the wood.”

In a forest there once lived a lion, in company with three counselors, a wolf, a jackal and a camel. One day, he fought with a furious elephant whose sharp-pointed tusk so tore his body that he withdrew from the world.

Then, suffering from a seven-day fast, his body lean with hunger, h...