A SELF-STYLED “dragon hunter” went into the mountains to trap a dragon. He searched all over the mountains and at last discovered the frozen body of an enormous dragon in a cave high up on one of the tallest peaks.

The hunter brought the body to Baghdad. He claimed that he had slaughtered it single-handedly and exhibited it on the bank of Euphrates. Thousands of people turned out to see the dragon.

The heat of the Baghdad sun started to warm up the dragon’s frozen body, and it began to stir, slowly awakening from its winter hibernation.

People screamed and stampeded. A few were killed. The hunter stood frozen in terror and the dragon burned him to ashes with a fiery flame.

Our ego is like that dragon. Never believe its dead; it’s only frozen.

This ego is trained with a combination of two factors – alertness and humility.

Sometimes we anchor on humility yet the sleeping dragon called ego wakes up when we are not alert.

May that dragon of ours stay always dormant.

If it’s freed it will burn us and harm us. We all have been there, isn’t it?