Which wolf are you feeding?

Devadutta was a good swimmer. A high performer in Gurukula, music, sports, and life in general, his performance had been dipping as of late. And worse, he was developing a reputation as a “poor performer”. As a high achiever, he was having trouble living up to his own expectations, and becoming quite unhealthy in his personality and demeanour.

Once, Guruji explained to his young disciples that within every person there are two wolves in a constant battle. The bad wolf is full of desires, anger, passion, greed, ego, jealously and fear, while the good wolf is full of hope, happiness, love and faith. The young Devadutta asked “But Guruji, who wins?” To which the Guruji replied “The one you feed.”

Devadutta liked this story and his mantra became “Feed the good wolf.” He recognized that the doubts in his thoughts were not serving him well, and weren’t even his own. So he decided that every time a unhealthy came up, he said “That’s not me, feed the good wolf” and re-directed his thoughts to transform and become healthy.