Sunday, March 11, 2018

Guide: Golden Mongoose

This is a guide to The Golden Mongoose: Tales of Duty from the Mahabharata (Volume 670). You can find it at Amazon.

Bizzell Reserves call number: PN 6790 .I443 A437 v.670

Summary: The first story in the book is about a mongoose who is golden on one side; the mongoose comes to Yudhishthira's royal sacrifice and tells a story about true sacrifice. The second story is about a young man who renounces the world to live an ascetic life but learns about Dharma from a butcher. In the third story, a hunter is enlightened when a pigeon offers him refuge and hospitality during a storm. You can find out more about Dharma at Wikipedia.