Once a tigress attacked a herd of goats but was shot by a hunter. The tigress gave birth to a cub as she expired. The cub began to grow in the company of the goats; nursed by the she-goats, and later on it began to eat grass and bleat. Gradually the cub became a big tiger; but still it ate grass and bleated.
One day a fierce tiger attacked the herd. It was amazed to see a tiger in the herd eating grass and running away with the goats at its approach. It left the goats and caught hold of the grass-eating tiger, which began to bleat and tried to run away.
But the fierce tiger dragged it to the water and said: 'Now look at your face in the water. You see, you have the face of a tiger; it is exactly like mine.' Next it pressed a piece of meat into its mouth. At first the grass-eating tiger refused to eat the meat. Then it got the taste of the meat and relished it. The fierce tiger is like the guru who awakens one's spiritual consciousness,. To see one's face rightly is to know one's real Self.