That eagle then leapt out from his hands and began to soar. And in that moment realized that it was not a chicken, but it was an eagle. The story—many people may take various lessons from the story—but one of the ways it relates to the practice of what we call Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which means to come back to our original consciousness, is to see that the ways that we work in this world and the idea that we're a material entity ,"I belong to a particular family"—when you perform a yajña, there's a recount of your family and your heritage and so forth. But actually, we don't have anything to do with this material identity that we've assumed.

And because of association, we've taken on a very determined lifestyle that, "Oh, I'm a human. I have to do human things and so forth, and I have work to do, I have a family, I have obligations to my material body." So Kṛṣṇa says, "This is a mistaken identity." But when we're reminded by Kṛṣṇa and those who teach Kṛṣṇa consciousness like our spiritual teacher here came to the West and just had a simple message that the work that you're doing and the way that you're identifying yourself s not your real nature. He was like that wise person who came and took the eagle and said, "Here, here, no, try fly," and it's quite natural, because that is our nature. We're spiritual beings.

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