Worldly Attachment And Worthless Distress.

Anecdotes

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By Staff

Friday, April 17, 2009, 14:00

In the Vedas, it is spoken of a particular mystical bird called the Homa bird. It is a peculiar kind of a bird that lives high up in the sky. It is believed that the mother bird lays the egg in the sky. Owing to the height where the egg is laid, the egg fall downwards towards the earth.

In the course of its journey, it hatches mid way and the chick begin to fall for days together. During the chick's downward journey it develops its eyes.

On reaching the vicinity of earth, the chick becomes consciousness. It gives out a shrill cry with the fear of dashing to the ground to encounter death. It stabilizes its movement and takes flight upwards towards its safest sanctuary, its mother.

Sri Ramakrishna in one of His parables says that people born with God consciousness realise the danger of worldly attachment even from their childhood. Their sole thought would be directed towards reaching God which is God realization.
The story illustrates one's spiritual journey to Self realisation.