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This is the story by Shree Gaur Gopal das Ji
I found it very inspirational, so I am sharing it with you all as
you might have missed it.
There was a king who received a very special gift, 2 beautiful,
magnificent, peregrine falcons. He handed them over to a man who was an expert
in training Falcons. After a couple of months, the trainer informed the king
one of the two Falcons was doing really well. Flying majestically! Soaring into
the heights of the sky! But the other one, it had not moved at all from its
branch, from the very day that he’d started training them.
The King brought healers and sorcerers from all over the place to
try and get the Falcon to move, but the bird just wouldn’t fly. Having tried
everything he could, the frustrated king said to his minister, “maybe we need
someone more familiar with nature, someone, who understands animals and birds. I
think only such a person can solve this problem. Go. Look for someone like this
from the countryside and assign this task to him”.
The next morning, the king was thrilled to see the second Falcon soaring high above
the palace gardens. Delighted, he called his minister and asked him to get the
doer of this miracle to him. The minister brought a simple farmer to the king.
The
king asked the farmer “how did you make this falcon fly?”. The farmer replied,
“it was very easy, your royal highness. I simply cut the branch on which the
bird was sitting”.
We
are all created to fly, to live by the incredible potential that we have all
been invested with. But, often we sit on our branches clinging to the things
that are familiar to us. Remaining stuck in our comfort zones. Not willing to
venture out. Not willing to take risks. The possibilities are endless. But for
most of us, they remain undiscovered, because we continue to conform to the
familiar, to the comfortable, to the mundane. So for the most part, our lives
are mediocre, instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.
What
is the branch that’s holding you back from flying high? What’s the fear that’s
stopping you from taking a risk? What is the weakness that’s inhibiting your
growth? Unless we cut off the branches, we are clinging to and free ourselves,
we can never take off and reach new heights in our life.
What
are you waiting for cut the branch and take your flight?
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