" 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 ? ? ?

“記住關(guān)于一開始就沒有自由的鸚鵡的故事，但不知道自由是什么意思，被放進一個籠子里面，里面知道了自由的意義，釋放后完全意識到自由，享受它的自由被剝奪了，它被放進籠子里，只是為了使自己有意識，給予自由的知識和經(jīng)驗，最后知道自由是什么意思，因此知道自己。

以同樣的方式，我們的身體就像籠子，我們的精神就像鸚鵡一樣。如果我告訴你，你是Ishwar [神]，你不會相信的，因為你對上帝的可笑的想法是一個白色的胡子的老人，從天堂的扶手椅上看著你！你對自己說，“我怎么可能，一個低級的人，就是上帝呢？你害怕你是神的想法！但這是一個事實。這是你對這種知識的無知 - 心靈的虛假印象，就是你是男人 - 這妨礙你體驗?zāi)闶巧瘛?/p>

例如，您可以在清醒時看到事物，但在睡眠中您看不到，但仍然有眼睛。因為在睡眠中看不到，這是否意味著你沒有眼睛？沒有！事實上，你有眼睛仍然是一樣的 - 在覺醒期間和睡眠期間 - 但是在覺醒期間看到的差異和睡眠期間看不到是心靈狀態(tài)的差異。

假設(shè)你有一千萬盧比的盧比。但是，您不能將其全部放在口袋里。這并不意味著你不擁有這些錢，而且是無恥的。所以我想讓你知道你們每個人都是上帝，但你只是不知道！ “

?Meher Baba???