Lesson from the Pigeons

by TSK. Raman

 

There was a family of pigeons which had made the top of a mosque as its abode. They were living happily for a sometime and when one day when the mosque was being decorated for a festival, the pigeons had to think of a relocation.

The head of the family discussed the migration with the family including so they moved to a church. They settled down in their new abode and life was going on smoothly till the church was being decorated this time again for a festival.

The family go together and discussed this issue and they planned another migration. This time around they migrated and made their new abode atop a temple.

One baby pigeon had a doubt and asked its mother, "please don’t mind if I ask you a question."

The mother pigeon said, "go ahead."

The baby asked, "When we were in the mosque people who came to worship were all known as Muslims and they followed Islam. When we moved to the church, people who came to worship were all known as Christians and they followed Christianity. Now here people who come here are called Hindu’s and they follow Hinduism. How come the same people just because they go to different places of worship get called by different names, where as we are called pigeons everywhere we go."

To this the mother replied, "We are way ahead of them. Good doubt indeed, we stay at a height and we also fly, where as human beings are on the ground and they do not ever rise, it is just for that reason we are so elevated in our thinking and they are still on the ground. When perhaps a man raises his level he will be able to see himself above all these minor divides."

The moral of this story: When we are on the same level, we can’t see that far, but when we raise our levels we see from the top we see things we enjoy a more broader vision.