One of the robbers said, "What is the use of keeping this man alive?" So saying he was about to kill him with sword, when the second robber interrupted him, saying: "Oh! No! What is the use of killing him? Tie his hands & feet and leave hime here." The robbers tied him tightly with a rope & went away. After a while the third robber returned & said to the man: Ah! I'm sorry. Are you hurt? I will release you from your bonds."

After setting him free, the robber said: "Come with me. I'll take you to the public road." They started walking together & after a long time they reached the main road. At this the man said: "Sir, you have been very good to me. Come with me to my house." "Oh, no!" the robber replied. "I can't go there. The police will come to know of me."

This world itself is like this forest. The three robbers prowling here are Sattva (lucidity, balance of mind or wisdom), Rajas (passion, activity or restlessness) and Tamas (inertia or dullness). It is they that rob the man of True Knowledge. Tamas wants to destroy him. Rajas binds him to the world. But the Sattva rescues him from the clutches of Rajas & Tamas. Sattva protects man & rescues him from anger, passion & other evil effects of Tamas. Further, Sattva loosens the bondage with the world. Sattva cannot give man the Ultimate True Knowledge, though it shows him the road leading to the Supreme Abode of God.

Setting him on the path, Sattva tells him: "Look Yonder. There is your home." Even Sattva is far away from the knowledge of Brahman (The one & only which is the basis of all).

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