LET GO🔗

And fly!

In Northern parts of India, in all the trees in the forests, there will be a stick hanging like this. They will hang a stick like this. This is actually a hunter’s trap. You may think how a small stick like this can be a trap! But what happens is, this stick will be hanging like this. When a bird comes and sits here, because of the bird’s own weight, the whole thing will flip downwards.

These birds don't understand that if they let go of the stick, they can fly away! They think if they leave the stick, they will fall and die, they will fall and hurt themselves. So they just hold on to the stick. They just hang on to the stick. The hunter will come after two to three hours, take a bag, catch the bird, put it in the bag and go! What that bird thinks as security is actually its trap.

Understand: just like these birds that don't understand that by letting go, by opening, by relaxing, they can fly, we are also holding on to our identity without letting go. We do not have confidence and courage that if we just let go, we too will become a Paramahamsa - the Supreme enlightened Swan!