HUMA – HEAVENLY BIRD – COURTESY: PAVITHRAN
Greatness of Huma bird as mentioned in Vedas is really fascinating. This bird lives in the sky very high and never comes to the earth. The bird lays its egg in the sky. The egg, while it is falling towards earth, hatches and the young one opens its eyes in the heat of the atmospheric pressure and flies on its own away from the earth towards its mother bird. Huma bird lives always in the sky – never to have the feel of earth. Huma is indeed heavenly bird. There is a very interesting story about a mythological ‘Home Bird’ in Oriental literature. Though Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said that it was a bird mentioned in the Vedas, there are no references to such a bird in Vedic literature. But there are indirect references elsewhere. Ramakrishna pointed to Narendra (later Swami Vivekananda) and compared him to a Homa bird. This is what happened in the case of Adi Shankaracharya, Swami Vivekananda and the great Tamil saint Thiru Gnana Sambandhar. Even when they were ...