Conditioning Life

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An elephant can lift objects that weigh more than a ton only with its trunk. But strangely, an elephant can also be conditioned to dwell somewhere, tied to a peg attached to his front leg with only a small rope. No chains and no cage, of course the elephant was able to free himself from the bonds at any time, but in fact why the elephant was not able to?

This is because when the elephant was a baby and much smaller, the elephant was tied to a large tree with strong chains. That baby elephant was still weak while the chain and the tree are sturdy.  It is not unusual the baby elephant tied, so he kept yanking and pulling at the chain but it was in vain.

One day he realized that all the traction it’s no use, he gave up. Thought that he would never be able to free himself from the shackles of bondage. The baby elephant was stopped trying and quiet.

After the baby elephant grew into a large adult, he tied on a small peg with the fragile threads. Actually the elephant can free himself only with a jerk but the elephant quiets because he has CONDITIONED to believe that he cannot be separated from the bond.

The moral of the elephant story is we are born with extraordinary powerful ability but if the life is conditioning us to be a fragile human. Would we be like the elephant above?