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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
Eagles can do that. Garuda can do that. Not crows and sparrows. Similarly here we should have a vision which is global then only you move like that. If you have got a small vision of small ambit, naturally it is small. You don't require such wings. God doesn't grant them such wings. There is no necessity for it. If you have got to fly very low what is the need for an eagles wings for it. It will be too much of a burden perhaps. It will be akin to an ostrich trying to fly with heavy wings. Poor creature. That’s what most of us have opted to become. In more than one sense we don't like to see when we are in danger or difficulties. We try to put our head below this hand and then worry ourselves and then say world is lost. That is the ostrich problem. That's what is happening to us. The ostrich mentality of trying to fly with heavy wings at low levels and then trying to deny a reality that is very much there. Let us be like the big birds. Fly very high like a Garuda. Go on and up and reach the Higher World. There is no point in being crows and sparrows.
When Viveka comes to the finest level, you know that you are the part and parcel of the Divine, you
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