1. "ONE OF THE FAMOUS MANTRAM ABOUT TWO BIRDS"

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Chapter-3.

Section-1.

Mantram-1.



1. Two birds bound to each other in close friendship, sitting on a branch of a tree.


2.One of them eats the fruits of the tree with relish, while the other just looks on, without eating.


3.The two birds mentioned here as living in great friendship upon the self-same tree, are ego and the Divine Spark of life in us. 


4.The two birds --the real 'I' and the false 'I'  --live in one and the same tree, the body.


5.The false 'I', the ego, in its delusions goes on pecking at the hanging fruits and comes to suffer joy and sorrow, satisfaction or dis-satisfaction, according to the taste of the fruits pecked. Some are ripe, some are unripe; ripe ones are sweet, the unripe ones are sour. 


6.But, the other bird, which all along remains in unperturbed tranquillity, merely  goes on witnessing the joys and sorrows of the bird busy with the fruits!


7.Here fruits are the karmik fruits---the reaction of one's own past actions. The past karmas act on us only when we identify ourselves with our matter-envelopment or an inner mental attitude cannot in itself give us joy or sorrow, unless we get deluded and attached to it. 


8.The witnessing bird, though it lives on the same tree, comes to suffer neither the sourness nor the sweetness, because it has no desire to taste the fruits. It only goes on witnessing.


9. Here one bird eats fruits is Jeevatma and the other bird witnessing is Paramatma.


10. Identifying ourselves with the changing finite, we become the sorrowing bird which eats sour fruits. Identifying ourselves with our Eternal Nature as Pure Life, we shall become the witnessing bird with peace and dignity.     


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