One day Raju saw a beautiful blue bird in the veranda. The bird was hurt on its wing and unable to fly. Raju took her to doctor and got her treated. Bird started flying immediately. He liked her very much. Raju wants to keep her with him. He kept her in a cage.
His uncle Prabhu saw the bird in cage when he visited Raju house.
Prabhu asked Raju to leave the bird and give her freedom.
Raju said “I liked her very much and I want to keep her with me.”
Prabhu said “That is not right. You have done good job by helping her. But now you should leave her and she will be happy”.
Raju said “I am giving her good fruits and looking after her needs. What more happiness she gets in freedom?”
Prabhu said “True it may be! But who knows? You just allow her to go. If you want I will take you to nearby jungle every now and then. You can see so many birds and animals which you will really love it“
Raju was not in agreement with Prabhu’s idea of leaving bird. But he got tempted of jungle trips and he left his favourite blue bird by marking a yellow colour on her wings.
As promised, uncle Prabhu used to take him to jungle. Raju used to enjoy very much by seeing so many birds of yellow, red, black and white. He also saw peacock!
One day suddenly he saw his blue bird with yellow colour on her wings carrying some thing in her beak.
He felt happy to see her. He ran along with her as she was flying very low. She reached a tree to a nest. Raju saw her keeping food in her baby bird’s mouth. They were very cute and opening their mouths for food.
Raju was admiring the beauty of the baby birds and her duty towards her babies. Raju remembered the words of his uncle “allow her to be free”.
Raju turned back whispering to himself “Ohh what mistake I was committing, the blue bird was mother bird and her babies were waiting for the food.”
Raju felt sorry and thanked his uncle for right advice at right time.
Next day, again uncle Prabhu saw many bird cages at Raju’s home. He felt sad. But he saw, Raju was feeding one by one. Prabhu got surprised as why again Raju bought so many birds.
Prabhu asked Raju “Why did you bring so many birds in cages?”
Raju told he bought all these birds from bird’s seller with his pocket money which he saved all these days.
Prabhu asked “Why? What will you do now?”
Raju opened one by one cage and said he will give freedom to all. Prabhu was too happy for the change in Raju.
Moral : Do not be Possessive.