Excerpt of the spoken story by Mooji: “The story’s like this: there’s a young woman who lives in the forest with her family–the next day she’s going to get married. So as it turned out today is the last time she has to go and check to make sure that all the arrangements are done. So she’s got her list. First the dressmaker, then the cake maker, then the priest, then her Beloved. So she’s happy, happy, happy. She sets off on her path with all these appointments in her mind, she’s looking so much forward to today and tomorrow. And as she’s walking along very happily, through the forest, a lion or tiger, just steps out into the path. It’s never happened before, this lion is fierce looking and he just stands up in front of her like this and he’s as close as we are together like this, and she knows she can’t run. She just knows there’s no way you can get away, and this lion is just standing there like that looking at her, and she can feel its breath on her. And so in that instant when she sees the lion, the appointment with the dress maker who’s waiting for her — poof! Just vanish from her mind. And the next appointment with the cake maker, like — poof! It’s just gone. The appointment with the priest — poof! Everything is gone. Only her Beloved now, and in that instant — poof! He’s gone also. And for the first time, she’s totally empty. Empty, empty, empty. So, I won’t speak anymore about the rest of the story, but Papaji said, ‘Welcome this lion on your path,’ and what it means is that whatever it is that puts an end to your projections about how life should be, welcome this lion, or this tiger on your path, because this one has come for you to wake up.”
– Mooji I was on my way to get my wedding dress made When the lion he came and everything did fade All I thought I was and what I was doing In that moment soon was ruined My plans, my projections, my dreams and my afflictions Were gone were gone, and in your presence I was drawn Everything I knew, right wrong or true Fades away into You Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion (x2) There’s no need to plan It’s in God’s hands (x4) You better disappear There nothing to fear No past, no future What’s here is here In God’s hands I make my stand For liberation His holy vibration Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion (x2) Gotta go, gotta go Where you gotta go? No there ain’t no time for thinking Gotta be, gotta be What you gotta be? No there there ain’t no time for wasting What you feeling? Now what you feeling? (x3) Now: waking and roar! Gotta see, gotta see What you gotta see? No there ain’t no time tomorrow Gotta be, gotta be What you gotta be? No there ain’t no time for sorrow What you feeling? Now what you feeling? x3 Now: waking and roar! Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion (x2) I was on my way to get my wedding dress made When the Lord he came and told me not to be afraid Our challenges they come to set us free So we can know the Supreme Reality Everything I knew What’s right wrong or true Fades away into You Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion Welcome the lion on your path (the lion on your path) Welcome the lion, the Lion of Zion (x2)