A bird seller makes the birds sit on a wooden stick or a bamboo and displays them at the market place to look for a customer. Although the birds are quite capable or leaving the stick and flying in the air and become free, yet they keep clinging on to the stick with a feeling that they are stuck to it. Human being are no different than these birds. They are so intensely attached to I, me, mine and the material world that they are just not able to think of detachment and setting themselves free. They often like to say, “I want to leave the blanket, but the blanket does not leave me”.

We ignorantly tent to establish such a strong relationship with the unreal and temporary material world that we continue to cling on to it and keep drudging in the darkness of this misconception. The reason could be fear-psychosis of losing the material possessions or relationships which, in any case, will not last longer. This is where a Sadguru plays a pivotal role in helping the strayed human beings to perceive the truth that our real self is not the body, but the soul which has always been independent and free, is free and will continue to be free for all times to come. This material world is just a transit lounge and we ought to look forward to a flight that will take us to the higher world and be in the realm of divinity and rest at the lotus feet of the Lord.

Let us not be a bird that clings on to a stick, but a soul that has the freedom to fly high and freely.

Aum Namo Shiv Aum, Aum Namo Gurudev