We all have this
potential for infinite growth. What limits us? Our own thinking. Your own
imagination. It can lift you up. Unfortunately, it’s a two edged sword which
can also limit you.
An excerpt from Swami Mukundananda’s
speech:
“Once an eagle got
limited. The eagle’s egg was placed in the midst of prairie chicken. Prairie chicken
are these birds that just cluck around on the ground, flying a few feet up.
When the baby eagle hatched, it found itself in the midst of chicken. And
monkey see, monkey do. What it saw, that’s what it was doing. It would also
cluck around and flutter its wings a little bit. Although, it was destined to
soar high in the skies, it was clucking around on the ground. One day, this
baby eagle saw a giant bird gliding in the skies. It was thrilled, “Wow! What
in the world is that?” The prairie chicken said that is an eagle. It’s the king
of the birds. It can do that. You and I cannot do it. So, it continued to cluck
around on the ground. What a terrible pity! It was born and destined to rule
the skies, but it was conditioned to flutter around on the earth. This was the
misutilisation of the imagination.
In the same way, when I
say the law of infinite potential, don’t let your imagination cripple you. We
tend to cripple ourselves. If we wish to soar like an eagle, we will have to
learn to use our mind and our intellect in the way the eagle does. We will have
to learn the ways of flying high and we will also have to unlearn the ways of
the prairie chicken.”
God has not created
us to live down in the dumps. He has created us so that one day, when we wake
up to claim our divine inheritance, we will achieve the supreme perfection that
he has planned for us.
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