Natural intelligence

 

This particular belpatra tree, in   a corner in our garden, has unbelievably big, dangerous thorns, almost  two inches long and so sturdy that these can be safely used as nails plonked into wooden planks. Even standing near the tree seems so scary. Its thorny mass is sprawled over the fence wall. It’s impossible to even think for the humans to put their hands through a few boughs. It’s a fearsomely barbed fence. But cats, monkeys, squirrels, chameleons scamper through it without much concern. The birds land upon it with as much ease as they show while landing on a flower.

I see two peacocks rustle through the thorny maze almost effortlessly. Their entire bodies seem to carry natural intelligence, allowing them to go along the path of existence with amazing fluidity. We, on the other hand, have too big conscious part in our brains, which clouds our natural intelligence with fears, phobias, illusions and false assumptions. No wonder, I get a prick as and when I try to pluck a leaf from the tree. They, the rest of the non-human species, don’t bother beyond a few basic points and glide joyfully in the process of living. We humans, on the other hand, carry a huge burden of awareness that usually brings us down instead of elevating us higher.