Mum, Is it Bhagavan's birthday ?

Everyday the little cubs would wake up and the first question they would ask Mum Lioness was "Dearest Mum Lioness, is it Bhagavan's birthday today?"

Mum Lioness would say, "No, little cub. Bhagavan's birthday is on the 25th"

Then they would ask, "Mum Lioness, is it the 25th today ?"

"No, it's ... " she would glance at the calendar and say " about two and a half weeks from now".


The cubs were looking forward to Bhagavan's birthday. Each of them was born on Bhagavan's birthday and so it was their birthday, too.

Then the little cubs would get a little annoyed. It was hard for them to believe how long two weeks could take to come. And so then Mum Lioness would tell them a story about Bhagavan and the cubs would be happier.

She would also tell them the poem Bhagavan composed about birthdays.

1. You who wish to celebrate a birthday, inquire first who
was born. One's true birthday is when one enters into the
Eternal Being which shines forever without birth or death.

2. Of all days on one's birthday one should mourn one's
fall (into samsara). To celebrate it as a festival is like
adorning and glorifying a corpse. To seek one's Self and
merge in it is wisdom.