The Monkeys

When I was a child, we had a dog named Bhaga, a white hare, many birds and a few monkeys. One monkey was named Madhu. I was very fond of the monkeys, but they used to bite. When a monkey starts running towards you, you have to fall down and pretend you are dead. If you act as if you are dead, if you lie down and stop breathing, then it will never, never bite you. So many times I did that when I was six years old, but a few times I was caught and the monkey would bite me. Nobody in my family escaped except my mother.

[Source: "The Monkeys" in Sri Chinmoy, To the Streaming Tears of My Mother's Heart and to the Brimming Smiles of My Mother's Soul, Agni Press, New York, 1994. Accessed 18 January 2005 at www.srichinmoylibrary.com/streaming-tears/9.html]

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The Monkeys

[Source: "The Monkeys" in Sri Chinmoy, To the Streaming Tears of My Mother's Heart and to the Brimming Smiles of My Mother's Soul, Agni Press, New York, 1994. Accessed 18 January 2005 at www.srichinmoylibrary.com/streaming-tears/9.html]