Golo the Elephalo
The King elephant had sent Kelo the baby elephant to help Golo the Governor. But Kelo found Golo always surrounded by buffalos. He did not mind bowing to the whims of Golo, for Golo was an elephant after all. But Kelo found it galling to defer to the dictates of Golo’s buffalo fans. He found it strange that an elephant Governor could get so immodestly chummy with buffalos.
Kelo did not know that it all began one indiscretion of a previous King. The elephants were raiding a village when the King accidentally drunk off a trunk-full of rice toddy. Realizing what he had done, in order not to betray himself, he got overtly busy in herding the baby elephants in line. In his overzealousness he had pushed a big buffalo in line with the baby elephants. The blinkers of loyalty that all elephants wear did not allow them to spot the buffalo. They all started liking this jolly fellow who survived by speaking very little and confining himself to saying ‘Oh Yes’ to everything that male elephant leaders said and saying ‘Aha’ to the lady elephants. Soon Golo almost forgot that he was a buffalo.
But when he became Governor, his primary nature asserted and buffalos crowded around him.
It was easy for the buffalo to survive with the food left by elephants. But it was really no surprise that the Kelo the baby elephant could not survive among the bevy of buffalos who hardly left anything.
Will Kelo’s travails end? We can’t say anything. Loyalty runs deep among elephants. Herds remain loyal to their leader even when going down into the deeps.
Swami Sampurnananda
1st June 2009, 11.59 p.m.
Belur Math
The Old Math (Mother’s Place)
Nilambar Mukherjee Garden House
The King elephant had sent Kelo the baby elephant to help Golo the Governor. But Kelo found Golo always surrounded by buffalos. He did not mind bowing to the whims of Golo, for Golo was an elephant after all. But Kelo found it galling to defer to the dictates of Golo’s buffalo fans. He found it strange that an elephant Governor could get so immodestly chummy with buffalos.
Kelo did not know that it all began one indiscretion of a previous King. The elephants were raiding a village when the King accidentally drunk off a trunk-full of rice toddy. Realizing what he had done, in order not to betray himself, he got overtly busy in herding the baby elephants in line. In his overzealousness he had pushed a big buffalo in line with the baby elephants. The blinkers of loyalty that all elephants wear did not allow them to spot the buffalo. They all started liking this jolly fellow who survived by speaking very little and confining himself to saying ‘Oh Yes’ to everything that male elephant leaders said and saying ‘Aha’ to the lady elephants. Soon Golo almost forgot that he was a buffalo.
But when he became Governor, his primary nature asserted and buffalos crowded around him.
It was easy for the buffalo to survive with the food left by elephants. But it was really no surprise that the Kelo the baby elephant could not survive among the bevy of buffalos who hardly left anything.
Will Kelo’s travails end? We can’t say anything. Loyalty runs deep among elephants. Herds remain loyal to their leader even when going down into the deeps.
Swami Sampurnananda
1st June 2009, 11.59 p.m.
Belur Math
The Old Math (Mother’s Place)
Nilambar Mukherjee Garden House
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