Nature : The Supreme Intelligence

10 Dec 19 I had been to Indapur (Maharashtra) to attend Satsang with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankarji. Bhigwan popular Bird Site being near to Indapur we made a sudden plan to visit the site. Birds from the chilly Northen region of the earth like Russia, Europe migrate here during winter.
Up early in the morning, we set a wonderful Bullet ride in chilly morning to Kumbhargoan one of the site points.  Chasing the Rising Sun during ride was something memorable. Something clicked during this writing  “If you chase you will never reach, however, if you stop it is readily available”.

We took a boat to explore the site. Rahul was our boat rider and the guide. He is 9th-grade pass, however, he has gained good knowledge about birds and has developed sharp eyes to site the birds. He has very good photography skills also. To gain wisdom one doesn’t need bookish education :).
The boat ride was awesome with clean air. However, matter of concern is that the water is getting polluted due to sewage and chemical waste from Pune being dumped.

Here are few photographs that I took during the visit, I have put a wiki link also if you are interested to know more about birds.

Painted Stork (Marathi Name: Rangeet Karkocha or Chamdhok)

Glossy Ibis

Openbill Stork

Black Headed Ibis (Marathi Name : Kudlya)

Sea Gulls

Red Avadavat (Red Munia)

Courtesy Google

Few thoughts that crossed the mind during this nature-friendly visit,

How these migrating birds sense the change in weather beforehand and calculate their time of travel to reach the destination at the right time?
How they choose the path?
How they conserve energy and food? If we have to just travel to another city you know how much we are concerned about the food.
How they choose a location, are they having some inbuilt google maps?

Answer to all this is Wonder !!! Turn the question into wonder. Nature is amazing and intelligent enough to impart this knowledge. As Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar says real knowledge is to look for the cause of the cause, then everything is Wonder itself !!! The cause of the cause is the Supreme Intelligence.

As you have seen these birds migrate from Europe, Russia, Egypt, Pakistan….the man-made boundaries don’t confine them.
If we are free like a bird within, then any boundaries don’t restrict us, we are Limitless.

Jai Gurudev!

Characters

We watch movie, if our favorite hero plays a villans role in one movie, do we carry that image in our mind? We still love him for his good acting. 
However if the same husbund/wife shows her ugly behavior some or the other day, we get stuck with it and carry that image for a long. Everything changes, don't stuck into relationship.

Game Love

Man loves Games. Woman find no interest in games.
Life is a combination of both.
Wise knows when to loose and when to win.

Veils of Maya !!!

The word Maya comes from which can be measured. So whatever we see around can be measured hence a Maya. 

I am putting lil analysis with different scenarios....

If you take a particular person in the family, take for example working son of the home. The way he appears for his wife his behavior\his charm completely different for his mother. For his mother he is completely different person than his wife. The same with his children, children sees him different than his father. The way his friend relates with him is totally different from a office colleague. The point I am making here how a same person can appear so differently to people depending upon their own nature and relation with him. So that person is not the Truth. If it is truth he should be same for everyone. Truth is beyond personality!!!

Another such example I am putting with little different perspective though....perspective word itself lil funny though....doesn't suit in context of Truth.

When movie is being recorded, actors acts, they expresses their emotions but no emotions are recorded on the film. The film is flat now, only sound and forms. But when the movie is watched by group of people, the same movie brings different emotions to each individual.  See the movie is just projection of forms with help of light and sound but the same movie is liked by someone, disliked by someone, very emotional for someone, very boring for someone. So depending upon the individuality we see perceive same thing differently, What We See is What We Are !!!

Now take an a example of sky, we all know it takes eight minutes to reach Sunrays to earth.  Aha, then we see the Sun it is actually eight minute late it is already a past. During night we see many stars in the sky which are light years away...so basically the night-sky is already a past, which is not the Truth. 

 

Another incidence, watching a Sunrise\Sunset. The same Sunrise brings different knowledge to different persons. A painter sees it is magical display of dreamy colors, scientist extracts some scientific knowledge from it, a poet when sees get inspired for a beautiful poem or musician expresses it in all together different form. So all the knowledge is present in an around, it is depending upon individuality we extract it. Truth is beyond Knowledge!!!

Every individual's journey is a spiritual journey seeking the ultimate Truth and meditation is one of the ways to seek it.

When the veils of Maya are uncovered what remains in Pure Love !!!

Jai Gurudev!