cuckoo has stopped?
the rain has started. slowly, the heat is going down. summer is fading. yesterday and today, we had good rains. we had bonus too—thunder and heavy lightning.
the cuckoos, singing day and night, have stopped now. no, wait. i heard it twice or thrice today.
this cuckoo at the ashram is special. it was kooing all the time—early morning, noon, evening, night, even past midnight. but i could never find it.
have you ever tried competing with a cuckoo? it’s fun. when it ‘koos,’ you ‘koo’ too. the cuckoo raises its pitch. you raise yours. the cuckoo will raise its too. back and forth it goes. after 5–6 rounds, you’ll hear its annoyance. but keep going. push it to the peak of its voice. you continue, and then… the cuckoo will stop.
you’ve won. bravo!
…
…
but not for long. it starts again.
so, you try again. same steps. you win again. but seconds later, cuckoo starts all over. this goes on—day and night.
you can never win.
in twenty years, i never heard cuckoos like this at the ashram. once, amma mentioned it to me too.
the ashram is quiet now.
bhagavad gita classes are happening regularly in the morning hours after the archana. swami kaivalyanandaji’s superb exposition on bhagavad gita helps us to understand the depths of simple statements of Amma.
27 may 2007, amritapuri