Learned Parrot ................ Poem by TD. Kumar

Learned parrot

Many of us are learned parrot
We still motivate by stick and carrot
A parrot escaping a bird trapper was brought
By a monk to his ‘Ashram' for training to escape being caught.


The parrot learnt to repeat a formula for survival, to avoid the trapper's net
‘The trapper will come, spread the grain, but I will not eat and thus avoid the cast net'
As the parrot became perfect the monk was assured of it's security. When trapper came He spread the grain; which the parrot ate and trapped in the net.

But the parrot went on repeating, "The trapper will come, spread the grains, but I will not
Eat and thus avoid the cast net and I will not be caught
He went on repeating but eating the grain and getting trapped in the net
Thus the learned parrot in spite of his rote learning for survival was caught.

More than belief and knowledge you need direct experience and application
Wisdom is a matter of deep and assimilation
To handle the hunter's trap, of set back tragedy, death
We are to awaken the intuition and creation.