Lion (Conversations and Letters)

Expressions researched:
"lion" |"lion's" |"lioness" |"lionlike" |"lions"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

These political leaders, they may be lion, but who respects them?

Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973:

Just like the lion. Lion is respected in the forest by dogs, hogs, camel and asses and other animals. Because lion is the king of the animals. But does it mean, because he is designated as the king of animals, it has got any use? Has it got any use for any purpose? Similarly, these political leaders, they may be lion, but who respects them? These dogs, hogs, camels and asses, that's all. He may be a big animal, but he is animal, no better than a big animal. That's all. And other animals praises, dogs, hogs, camels.