Rişhi: Dīrghatamaĥ (RV 1.164.20)
dvā
suparņā sayujā sakhāyā samānam vŗkşham parişhasvajāte,
tayor anyaĥ pippalam svādvatty anashnan anyo abhi chākashīti.
Two birds
beautiful of wing, friends and comrades, cling to a common tree,
and one eats the sweet fruit, the other regards him and eats not.
In each individual there is the Divine Self
which presides over that manifestation but keeps itself above it,
not involved in the movement. There is a projection of this Self
in the movement of evolution, a soul that is associated with
nature and grows by the experience of this interaction. Both the
Self and the soul are on the same tree of Nature; but the Self
sits above, overseeing but not participating in the experience of
the soul involved in it. |
