In a cozy wood, the evening was beginning and the birds left for food. Nevertheless, three of them remained on top of an ipe tree, in a warm dialog.
The first one, a Rufous hornero, was saying to his companions:
“I have spent my life building. I know well the technique of building; I know how to choose the best clay, I make strong houses, which resist the elements of nature and remain for several seasons. I have nothing to complain about, as I have been able to fulfill my duties and collaborate with my companions. Food here is plenty and generous are the blessings that life has given me. Nevertheless, one question has accompanied me for some time, robbing me of nights of sleep. Are there other tasks awaiting me, tasks that I do not know precisely what they are? How to behave to fulfill them, if I ignore them?”
At that moment, the rook interrupted him, after listening to him carefully:
“To me such question does not occur. I have been gifted with enough intelligence and courage to live freely what life brings me. I think our companion is getting of age – I see no other explanation to lose time with such preoccupations”. Havind said this, she jumped to a higher branch, where she could still receive the rays of the Sun, which already began to hide behind the mountains and continued: “But, como to think of it, I recognize that curiosity brings me restlessness… I am always seeking to know the reason of things and when I think I have reached a satisfactory answer, new questions come right away…”
So the third bird, a humming bird, said:
“In the wood and in the fields around it there are abundant flowers. I am attracted to them as soon as they open; it is as if I knew them deeply. But I do not know my task either, neither the reason for my living. Neither do I have to whom make these questions…”
The potent voice of the Sun
Night approached, but the potent voice of the Sun, though it had already hidden, was heard. “Beloved, I know you cannot see me, but I am present and I know each one of you. It was granted to me ruling your existence and that of the planets that surround me. I heard your questionings – I already knew about them, as there is no place where my essence is not.
Because of this I tell you: learn with humility the lessons of daily life. Do not want to understand the incomprehensible, nor to structure what must remain free from formal bonds. Let the wisdom of life put each thing in its place. If you sincerely surrender to this wisdom, in simplicity the mysteries of existence will be revealed to you. But as long as you disperse yourselves in questionings, your efforts will be vain. Each being has a precise place in Creation and an inner note that only He, in the exact tone, can sound.
Ask the wind who makes it blow; the clouds, who makes it rain; the volcanos, who makes it enter eruption. You will know that all are moved by a single Presence, the same that animates the universes. Do you want to know it? With the mind you will not manage to. Do you want to hear it? Pacify your heart, as it is love the stream that conducts its inaudible voice. You have everything you need; you have always had and will always have. But it is necessary to forget about yourselves – thus, and only thus, you will remove the veil of illusion that separates you from the Truth. It is now and at each instant before you, around you and inside you. Open yourselves in sincere surrender and let yourselves be transformed”.
Article of reference: Jornal (newspaper) O Tempo, of Feb 26, 2017
Name of the article: A potente voz do Sol fez-se ouvir ao entardecer (The potent voice of the sun was heard at dusk)
Irdin Audio: Conversas com Trigueirinho (Talks with Trigueirinho) nº 336 – from 12’45 until 16’0
Complete audio: http://www.irdin.org.br/acervo/detalhes/5710
