BoomerSooner359: Reading Notes: The Jataka Tales Part B

Today I read about the elephant named girly face. The elephant was the nicest elephant who would never do any wrong. He always treated averyone nicely and would not harm any of the trainers. The head trainer always said that girly face is the nicest elephant and he would do no wrong to anyone! One night, some robbers were sitting outside girly face’s enclosureand began talking about how to rob a home. The robbers spoke of how they must kill anyone who was awakened in the house. They must be cruel and show no mercy so that they can be successful. Girly face heard this and decided that they were trying to teach him how to live his life. From then on he killed all the trainers that would enter the enclosure. After so long, the king hired a wise man to figure out why girly face had changed so much. The wise man asked around and found out about the robbers and their conversation outside of girly face’s enclosure. He told the king to send good men to have conversations and that would have the same effect on girly face. After this was done, girly face returned back to the normal elephant that he was and never killed anyone again. This story is great at showing why it is important to surround yourself with people who will uplift you and not bring you down.