Caution: Reader discretion is advised. This intensely counter intuitive material is written for a select audience who clearly know that life is just a ride.
Long Long time ago, when the banyan trees were still filled with birds and bird watching meant precisely that, there lived a group of happy go lucky birds perched on various branches. One among them was a particularly restless one and used to hop from one branch to another all the time. Once in a while this little birdie used to watch another bird which was perched on a higher branch. The one on the higher branch was not restless, in fact it hardly appeared to move , but its gaze was constantly fixed at something vacant. The little birdie never gave this a second thought all its life and gradually grew older, remaining restless all its life ( meanwhile, during its growing years it became a champion of flight ). As luck might have it , One fine morning, the little birdie ( which now is old though ) realized that its life is gradually failing and its gaze fell on the original bird which never ´moved´. To its surprise, it realized the original bird never grew older , nor did its vacant gaze change. Filled with surprise , the little birdie ( now oldie ) for the first time, took the other bird rather seriously. With great tentative steps , it hopped on to the higher branch and perched itself near the original bird. The moment it did, it figured the original bird was its own self which was watching itself all thru its life. The little birdie simply saw what it missed all its growing years. It was the one watching itself all its life. The watcher and the watched are one and the same. We are the ones we have been waiting for ..all thru our lives , all thru our restlessness. The question is , which side are you , the one on the higher branch or the one restless !!!!!!!!
This is a story as i recall from memory , but is surely from ancient indian folk lore. The same idea ( ofcourse independantly ) was presented in a Russian book titled ´An Adventure in Higher consciousness´
