Once a very big fussy and fatty cater
pillar was ruling over a large community of caterpillars in a beautiful forest
with full of greenery and plenty of food to eat day and night. It’s job was to
see that the entire community keeps up the traditions, old beliefs of living
and follows the laws of the land laid down by the ancestors. One day it was
addressing the community group who assembled to listen to her lecture. “I
understand that the spirit of this forest is meeting our people and offering
lot of group deals. Hence I have decided to meet that spirit of forest and talk
to her exactly what she wants from us. One of the caterpillars asked the
leader, “Fine! But how are you going to meet her?”
“Ya! It’s a big problem. Now I cannot
move out of this place to meet her, the spirit of the forest. I cannot
undertake the task of meeting her, but I will try and see that she comes and
meet me instead of I travelling to meet her, as it is a difficult task for me.
The next day the fussy and fatty caterpillar was calling out the name of the
spirit of the forest. As the caterpillar was very lazy to climb up and visit
the spirit of the forest which was residing on the top according to the source of
information.
There appeared a very beautiful
spirit of forest and exchanged greetings with the fussy and fatty
caterpillar. The spirit of the forest politely invited the fussy and fatty
caterpillar to visit her home which is at very top and promised to show the
nature, beautiful valleys, the flowers, tall trees, plenty of breeze , greenery
everywhere and plenty of foliage to eat. But the lazy caterpillar said, “No!
No!”, “I cannot take the risk of leaving this cozy and comfortable place which
is my home, and you know, I am supposed to eat all the time. I cannot go up the
hill to visit your house. I am sorry.” Thus saying the caterpillar refused the
invitation of the spirit of the forest.
Then the leader of the caterpillars
demanded the spirit of the forest, “I understand that , you have promised
lot of miracles to my fellow caterpillars. What was it? “Yes”, replied the
spirit of the forest. If you are willing to listen to my advice you can be
changed into a beautiful pink creature with wings of multi-colors and you can
fly high into the sky, you can climb the tree tops and you can also taste
nectar from the flowers and you will be very beautiful. Your beauty will be
appreciated by one and all explained the spirit of the forest. The caterpillar
said to the spirit of the forest I am not able to see your face. I would like
to see your face while I am talking to you. The spirit of the
forest requested her to climb a little upwards and lift the face in order
to see her. But the caterpillar was very busy in eating the foliage it
refused to look up and it also protested that it will be very difficult for her
to move an inch to see the spirit of the forest. One set of caterpillars was demanding
the spirit of the forest it seems you have promised us to transform into
beautiful multi-colored winged creatures. Why only with the caterpillars? Why
not with the ants or the other insects?” Why are you telling fairy tales? And
you want us to believe your fairy tales. We don’t trust all these things
because this never happened before. The spirit of the forest politely explained
patiently. You have wonderful gift from the nature to become very beautiful ,
multi colored creature and you can climb up , fly up in the sky and you can sit
on the branch of tall trees and watch out the nature and you can also have
plenty of nectar from the flowers. But the fussy and fatty cater pillar said,
“No!” “Don’t tell the lies. Don’t try to deceive my fellows! How is it
possible?”
Then the spirit of the forest
explained the process of Metamorphosis cycle and told that if you are able to
stop eating for some time and stay in a very dark room called cocoon for some
days you will be transformed into beautiful , colorful creatures. This is my
promise. For this, you have to travel a little bit up and stop eating food for
few days. “Ha.. ha…ha……a…. laughed the caterpillar giving break for a fraction
of second for eating the foliage which was tasty. Now don’t tell me stories. We
are all supposed to eat day and night. That is our tradition. That is our law.
Hence starving for so many days and staying in a dark room is highly impossible
and we can’t do that and we are not supposed to see the sun light. I cannot
move from my place even by one centimeter because the sun hurts me. I just
can’t walk. I cannot take the strain of going away from this place. So please
go away. Without any hard feeling the spirit of the forest explained with lot
of love and gave lot of assurance to the fussy and fatty caterpillar. “Yes, I
am telling you the truth. You can become very beautiful, multi-colored winged
creature and you can meet lot of beautiful friends like you and you can also
have plenty of food and people will love your beauty and they will appreciate
and enjoy. This is my promise.” “All you need to do is that be little bit away
from this place stop eating for few days and stay in the dark room and
then this miracle will happen. Sarcastically the caterpillar laughed and said
,”Don’t tell me the lies.” Flying caterpillars!” What nonsense you are talking?
Oh! If that is true then show me the flying caterpillars. Then I will
believe.
“Ya” I can show you lot of beautiful
flying caterpillars. They are beautiful. All you need to do is just climb up to
the hill-top and from there in the sunshine you can see plenty of caterpillars
with beautiful wings flying everywhere, enjoying the nature. Please follow my
advice. You can be changed into very beautiful, attractive winged creature.
“Please do come up!”, encouraged the spirit of the forest. The caterpillar
heard the name of the sun and said, “Oh, my God!” “The sunshine!” Don’t you
know that the caterpillars cannot bear the sunshine? It will burn and damage
our hair. More over a caterpillar cannot stay in the dark room, starving for so
many days. It is impossible. No…No.. No! You please go away, said the
caterpillar. Without losing patience the spirit of the forest persuaded the
caterpillar. I am promising you. Actually the sunshine will enhance your beauty.
Once you change yourself into a beautiful winged creature you can forget about
your old place where you are living, where people will not look at you and they
hate your appearance. But everything changes. Your life will change. You will
get an appreciation and applaud from all the people around you. The entire
nature will be happy. The flowers, the trees, even the people who are watching
you feel very happy and you will find lot of happiness between your old way of
living and the new way. Please listen to me. Believe me.
So the fussy and fatty caterpillar
told the Spirit of the Forest in order to change my appearance you want
me to leave my comfortable place and stop eating and come out of my cozy place,
expose my body to the sun leaving such an important job I am doing now. No.. ..
No….. This is not possible. The Spirit of the forest said if you want to see
the beautiful flying caterpillars with multi-colored wings you need
to come up. You need to walk a little and you yourself can watch the wonder.
“How beautiful your life will be after the metamorphosis!” The Spirit of the
forest tried to persuade the caterpillar.
I am not interested to do in what you
are saying. I don’t believe something called the metamorphosis and you are
telling in that we need to sit in a dark room called as cocoon, stop eating for
some time and our own biology changes and this biological change will transform
me into a beautiful winged creature with multi colors and I will fly away. What
are you talking? Don’t tell me jokes. Don’t try to crack jokes on me. I have
seen the world. Please go away”, said the caterpillar. The spirit of the forest
paused for one second and again tried to persuade. “If you want to change your
old ways, old energies and if you want to enjoy, look at the beautiful world,
the nature, taste the varieties of fruits then you need to do a little bit
sacrifice as I told you just now. Please remember without sacrifice your life
cannot be transformed. To enjoy this new life this is the gift given by the
nature even sitting on the tree in your place and this miracle can happen. You
don’t require any of my help. Since I am the spirit of the forest I am telling
you there are changes in the weather cycles and in a short time there are going
to be heavy rains, heavy down pour and this is going to damage the whole colony
and that is the reason I have come here to inform you that to move away from
this place an go to a little higher place and undertake this metamorphosis and
then see how your life changes. Listen to me, please”. Once again The Spirit of
the Forest told the caterpillar with lot of love and patience.
The caterpillar
(part-2 continued)
Then the leader of the caterpillar
thought for a moment and told the Spirit of the Forest, “You are dismissed!
Please go away”. The next day the fussy and the fatty caterpillar called a
meeting and entire community of caterpillars gathered there. They wanted to
listen to their leader and wanted to know about their future. The leader was
addressing the caterpillars. I met the Spirit of The Forest. No good spirit
will tell the caterpillars not to eat for months together and stay in a dark
room for months together, then automatically it seems that our biology changes
and we will become flying caterpillars. What nonsense this evil Spirit of
Forest is telling all of you! No good advisor will advise like this because all
the spirits know that the caterpillars have to eat day and night without taking
any rest. This evil Spirit of the Forest is promising some of
you nature god. Don’t follow his advice.
The evil Spirit of Forest and then all the caterpillars clapped
and fussy and fatty caterpillar. The meeting ended. There
were few caterpillars which belong to new generation and they heard the advice
of the Spirit of the Forest that the atmosphere is going to change drastically
this time and there will be thunderstorms, heavy downpour from the sky and cautioned
the caterpillars to move away to higher and safe place which the Spirit of the
Forest is willing to show them. The small group of caterpillars was unable to
rebel openly. So, they followed the advice of the Spirit of the Forest secretly
and slowly moved upwards to the safe place shown by the Spirit of the Forest
with plenty of food to eat.
These caterpillars belong to the new
generation. New energy followed the advice of the Spirit of the forest,
sacrificed and all of them were transformed into beautiful, multi-colored
winged creatures and they were all excited, extremely happy, their bodies were
light and they were looking very beautiful.
They also met lot of other flying
caterpillars now called as butterflies and there is plenty of food, green
fields, tall mountains, trees and beautiful flowers. They have really enjoyed
this new change and they also felt very sad. As predicted by the Spirit of the
Forest there were torrential rains, and their friends including their leader,
the Fussy and Fatty caterpillar all were washed away in the rains and died.
They thanked the Spirit of The forest, sang songs, and danced together enjoying
this new freedom, rejoicing this new life. This is the story of the
caterpillars.
The Spirit of The Forest was extremely happy and was enjoying having
changed the lives of few caterpillars that belonged to the new generation, new
energy, new beliefs in the new life and who believed the change of cycles and
followed the advice of the Spirit of the Forest and they all flew away to another
caterpillar’s colony.
The story of the caterpillars, metamorphosed butterflies has got a deep
meaning and the human beings have to learn a lot from this small story. There
are lots of messages for us.
Take an example of caterpillar. From
childhood onwards we are seeing the caterpillars with too many legs and lot of
hair, fussy and fatty. With little sacrifice, with little change, these fussy
creatures have transformed into beautiful, multi-coloured winged flying
creatures called as butterflies. What a difference! When you look at the
caterpillar and butterfly see what a strange change! These caterpillars were
very happy to look at their too many legs, too much hair and fatty to look at
and we don’t feel like to go near the caterpillars. But see, what happened by
little bit sacrifice and staying in the dark room for some time and they have
become flying creatures, the beautiful butterflies with so many different colours.
The caterpillars are not welcome, but the same caterpillars when they are
changed into beautiful butterflies are most welcome. We allow them to come near
us, sit on our nose, our head and really we enjoy looking at the beautiful
winged creature. We enjoy seeing the reflection of sunlight in different colours.
We enjoy, we welcome, what a change!
But from this story of Caterpillars we come to know that there are few
caterpillars who stick to the old traditions , old energy, old way of life. Even they
neglected the warning of the Spirit of the Forest that there will be change in
the weather cycles and due to these climatic changes there will be torrential
rains. Still they wanted to stick to their old energy, old way of life
and beliefs and refused to accept the new energy and new ways because they
always fear for anything which is new and they are always accustomed to old way
of life, belief systems, old energy and believe in comforts and they don’t want
to take any risk ,even though they find that the surroundings are changing and
are becoming unfavorable for us and if we stay there for longer time our very
existence may in these parts may be questionable but still they do not like to
take any risks we do not wish to leave the cozy bedroom with plenty of comforts
available there from that time by not accepting the new energies, new way of
life., ultimately we perish but whereas the people who have got open minds who
are having little bit of commonsense of exactly what is going to happening
around you and if they believe their intuitions and also take the advice of
wise persons and they take a little bit of sacrifice and their entire life is
changed from the stage of caterpillar to beautiful looking butterfly. Just as
in this case, the caterpillar was propagating false information, accusing the
good Spirit of the Forest as a bad one or an evil one. Being the
leader-cum-politicians it has polarized the situation and those who trusted the
leader all perished. But those who trusted the good Spirit of the Forest though
could not openly agree, disagreed openly the Fussy and Fatty caterpillar they
moved to safe place and followed the instructions of the Spirit of the Forest
they have transformed their lives by adopting to the new ways of life and
enjoying the new energy. Here it is true when we are habituated to do certain
practices to do the same thing since so many centuries as practiced by our
ancestors we find it is very difficult to accept the new way of life, new
energy. But we need to be flexible. We need to be practical. We need to trust our intuitions which are
very important.
Unfortunately we always see the old
energy as holy and sacred while the new energy, the new ways of life they look
to be unsafe and unholy and we turn them as evil. In the case of this
caterpillar story if we analyze further it is human nature, we are habituated
on the security to try the new ways and new energy and take a little bit of
risk and also to scarify a little in order to be something becomes very
difficult. This is because of the fear of the consequences of negative thinking
and insecurity. The sad part in the caterpillar story is that the leader was
very much afraid of the new ways, not willing to sacrifice , not ready to
give up the comforts and always believing that the old ways of living , old
energy is the best and in this process he has really spoiled the lives of many
caterpillars and prevented them to see the beautiful sunlight, prevented them
from becoming beautiful winged and lovely creatures called as butterflies. The
good part of this story is that the new generation of caterpillars trusted
their intuitions, kept their minds open, they were willing to sacrifice, they
were willing to try new energy, new way of life showed by the Spirit of the
Forest and followed her advice and their life has changed.
To make the long story short always
trust your intuitions. Keep always open. Be flexible. Be ready of taking little
calculated risk. Take chance and assume that you will enjoy the life like the
beautiful metamorphosed butterflies. All the
caterpillars had determined their potentials to become the butterflies, fly
away from the danger, fly away from the torrential rains, and take shelter on
the top of the mountains or tall trees instead of perishing in the torrential
rains, unfavorable weather. There are two kinds of leaders in the society. One
type of leader will be living in old traditions and will refuse to change. They
stick to the old ways of life. They don’t accept the new energy, new ways of
life. The people who believe such a leader will also perish the same way as the
caterpillars in the story. The another type of leader is the one who inspires
the people, motivates them and explaining the advantages of adopting the new
ways of life, adopting the new energy and he can change the lives of his home
mates like the Spirit of the Forest who changed the lives of ugly multi-legged
lady caterpillars into beautiful, flying creatures called as butterflies.
The moral of the story is that while
sticking to the old views, old belief systems, use your own analysis, your own
wisdom. Use and trust your own intuitions and follow the intuitions and also
keep your mind open and allow the new energy, new ways of life to go into you.
The earth’s magnetic crate has changed in 1987. The old energies, the old
belief systems are slowly dying away. But before they die they give a very
big fight, a very tough fight. They don’t give away just like that. But at the
end of the day, the new energy reveal upon the old energy and gets transformed
like an ugly multi-legged caterpillars transformed into a beautiful living and
flying multicolored butterflies. Trust your intuitions and your own analysis
and have belief in yourself. You can change the life. There is no doubt.
