Jnana Yoga!!!

Upon the same tree there are two birds, one on the top, the other below. The one on the top is calm, silent, and majestic, immersed in his own glory; the one on the lower branches, eating sweet and bitter fruits by turns, hopping from branch to branch is becoming happy and miserable by turns. After a time the lower bird eats an exceptionally bitter fruit and gets disgusted and looks up and see the other bird, that wondrous one of golden plumage, who eats neither sweet nor bitter fruit, who is neither happy nor miserable, but calm, self centered and sees nothing beyond his self.

The lower bird longs for this condition but soon forgets it, and again begins to eat the fruits. In a little while, he eats another exceptionally bitter fruit, which makes him feel miserable, and he again looks up, and he tries to get nearer to upper bird. Once more he forgets and after a time he looks up, and so on he goes again and again, until he comes very near to the beautiful bird and sees a reflection of light from his plumage playing around his own body, and he feels a change and seems to melt away; still nearer he comes, and everything about him melts away, and at lat he understands this wonderful change. The lower bird was, as it were, only the substantial-looking shadow, the reflection of the higher; he himself was in essence the upper bird all the time.

This eating of fruits, sweet and bitter, this lower little bird weeping and happy by turns, was vain chimera, a dream: all along, the real bird was there above, calm and silent, glorious and majestic, beyond grief , beyond sorrow. The upper bird is God, the lord of this universe; and the lower bird is the human soul, eating the sweet and bitter fruits of this world. Now and then comes a heavy blow to the soul. For a time, he stops the eating and goes towards the unknown God, and a flood of light comes. He thinks that this world is a vain show. Yet again the senses drag him down, and he begins to eat the sweet and bitter fruits of the world. Again an exceptionally hard blow comes. His heart becomes open again to divine light; thus gradually he approaches God, and as he gets nearer and nearer, he finds his old self melting away. When he comes near enough, he sees that he is no other than God, and he exclaims, ‘He whom I have described to you as the life of this Universe, as present in the atom, and in the suns and the moons- He is the basis of our own life, the Soul of our Soul. Nay, thou art That.’

Personal comment: We read, we realize and we forget. He put that very well,
"I theorise,talk,philosophise;and the next moment something comes against me, and I unconsiously become angry, I forget there is anything in the universe than this little limted self, i forget to say, 'I am the Spirit,what is this trifle to me? I am the spirit.' I forget it is all myself playing, I forget God, I forget freedom"

Why so??? Can anyone of you help me with answer. Thanks in advance.