Man must reveal the divine qualities of love, humility, detachment and contentment. If he does not, he becomes worse than a beast and more deadly. There was a dog that pleaded with Rama for a place in the aerial car in which he returned to Ayodhya. When Rama asked the reason for this strange behaviour and request, it said that man had become worse than worms and fleas; he had started tormentig dogs, who were loyally servig him! One should so live that no pain is caused to other beings through one’s activities. And, one should be ever grateful for the kindness received. Kartavirya Arjuna was treated with lavish hospitality by Jamadagni, but the wicked man coveted the Kamadhenu that made the lavishness possible. Bhartrhari, on the death of the queen, was sostruck with remorse, that he wept and moaned on the cremation ground itself, for days on end. Seeing his inconsolable plight, one sage came before him, with a mud pot in his hand. Right in front of of the bereaved man, the pot slipped from his hsnd, fell on the hard ground and was broken. The sage wept and moaned and was inconsolable. Bhartrhari consoled him and said, the broken pot cannot be made whole, by any amount of lamentation.Suddenly he realised the absurdity of his own behaviour and stopped crying; this was the purpose of the sage’s ruse!(SSS Vol.5, pp. 55-56)