Once, a man saw in his dream that a lion was chasing him. The man ran
to a tree, climbed on to it and sat on a branch. He looked down and saw
that the lion was still there waiting for him.


The man then looked to his side where the branch he was sitting on was
attached to the tree and saw that two rats were circling around and
eating the branch. One rat was black and the other one was white. The
branch would fall on the ground very soon.



The man then looked below again with fear and discovered that a big
black snake had come and settled directly under him. The snake opened
its mouth right under the man so that he will fall into it.



The man then looked up to see if there was anything that he could hold
on to. He saw another branch with a honeycomb. Drops of honey were
falling from it. The man wanted to taste one of the drops. So, he put
his tongue out and tasted one of the fallen drops of honey. The honey
was amazing in taste. So, he wanted to taste another drop. As he did,
he got lost into the sweetness of the honey.



Meanwhile, he forgot about the two rats eating his branch away, the
lion on the ground and the snake that is sitting right under him.



After a while, he woke up from his sleep.



To get the meaning behind this dream, the man went to a pious scholar.
The scholar said "The lion you saw is your death. It always chases you
and goes where ever you go. The two rats, one black and one white, are
the night and the day. Black one is the night and the white one is the
day. They circle around, coming one after another, to eat your time as
they take you closer to death. The big black snake with a dark mouth is
your grave. It's there, just waiting for you to fall into it.



The honeycomb is this world and the sweet honey is the luxuries of this
world. We like to taste a drop of the luxuries of this world but it's
very sweet. Then we taste another drop and yet another. Meanwhile, we
get lost into it and we forget about our time, we forget about our
death and we forget about our graves."