" Remember the story about the parrot who was free from the beginning, but did not know what freedom meant? It was put into a cage and inside there learned what the meaning of freedom was. When it was released, it fully realized its freedom and enjoyed it. Its freedom was taken away; it was put into a cage simply to make it conscious and give it the knowledge and experience of what was freedom. In the end, it came to know what freedom really meant and hence know itself.
In the same way, our body is like a cage and our spirit is like the parrot. If I were to tell you that you are Ishwar [God], you would not believe it, because your ridiculous idea of God is of some old man with a white beard, watching you from an armchair in heaven! You say to yourselves, "How can I, a lowly human, be God Himself?" You are afraid of the very idea that you are God! But it is a fact. It is your ignorance of that knowledge — the false impression of the mind that you are men — which prevents you from experiencing that you are God.
For example, you can see things when awake, but in sleep you do not see although you still have eyes. Because you cannot see during sleep, does it mean you do not have eyes? No! The fact that you have eyes remains the same throughout — during wakefulness as well as during sleep — but this difference of seeing during wakefulness and not seeing during sleep is a difference in the state of the mind functioning.
Suppose you have a crore [ten million] of rupees. However, you do not carry all of it in your pocket. That does not mean that you do not own the money and are penniless. So I want you to know that every one of you is God, but you just do not know it! "
~ Meher Baba ❤ ❤ ❤
“记住关于一开始就没有自由的鹦鹉的故事，但不知道自由是什么意思，被放进一个笼子里面，里面知道了自由的意义，释放后完全意识到自由，享受它的自由被剥夺了，它被放进笼子里，只是为了使自己有意识，给予自由的知识和经验，最后知道自由是什么意思，因此知道自己。
以同样的方式，我们的身体就像笼子，我们的精神就像鹦鹉一样。如果我告诉你，你是Ishwar [神]，你不会相信的，因为你对上帝的可笑的想法是一个白色的胡子的老人，从天堂的扶手椅上看着你！你对自己说，“我怎么可能，一个低级的人，就是上帝呢？你害怕你是神的想法！但这是一个事实。这是你对这种知识的无知 - 心灵的虚假印象，就是你是男人 - 这妨碍你体验你是神。
例如，您可以在清醒时看到事物，但在睡眠中您看不到，但仍然有眼睛。因为在睡眠中看不到，这是否意味着你没有眼睛？没有！事实上，你有眼睛仍然是一样的 - 在觉醒期间和睡眠期间 - 但是在觉醒期间看到的差异和睡眠期间看不到是心灵状态的差异。
假设你有一千万卢比的卢比。但是，您不能将其全部放在口袋里。这并不意味着你不拥有这些钱，而且是无耻的。所以我想让你知道你们每个人都是上帝，但你只是不知道！ “
〜Meher Baba❤❤❤
