ॐ वीरेश्वराय
विद्महे विवेकानन्दाय धीमहि । तन्नो वीर: प्रचोदयात् ।
Two birds sat on one tree. The bird at the top was calm, majestic,
beautiful, perfect. The lower bird was always hopping from twig to
twig, now eating sweet fruits and being happy, now eating bitter
fruits and being miserable. One day, when he had eaten a fruit
more bitter than usual, he glanced up at the calm majestic upper
bird and thought, "How I would like to be like him!" and he hopped
up a little way towards him. Soon he forgot all about his desire
to be like the upper bird, and went on as before, eating sweet and
bitter fruits and being happy and miserable. Again he looked up,
again he went up a little nearer to the calm and majestic upper
bird. Many times was this repeated until at last he drew very near
the upper bird; the brilliancy of his plumage dazzled him, seemed
to absorb him, and finally, to his wonder and surprise, he found
there was only one bird -- he was the upper bird all the time and
had but just found it out. Man is like that lower bird, but if he
perseveres in his efforts to rise to the highest ideal he can
conceive of, he too will find that he was the Self all the time
and the other was but a dream. To separate ourselves utterly from
matter and all belief in its reality is true Jnana. The Jnani must
keep ever in his mind the "Om Tat Sat", that is, Om the only real
existence. Abstract unity is the foundation of Jnana - yoga. This
is called Advaitism ("without dualism or dvaitism"). This is the
corner - stone of the Vedanta philosophy, the Alpha and the Omega.
"Brahman alone is true, all else is false
and I am Brahman." Only by telling ourselves this until
we make it a part of our very being, can we rise beyond all
duality, beyond both good and evil, pleasure and pain, joy and
sorrow, and know ourselves as the One, eternal, unchanging,
infinite -the "One without a second".
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