A teacher uses a two-bird metaphor to contrast the infinite self, a calm witnessing presence reached through yoga and samadhi, with the finite self that's anxious and burnt out. The book The Practice of Immortality teaches how to access this conscious awareness.
Two birds sit on a tree. One bird on the highest branch is calm, composed, witnessing. The second bird on the lower branch is in a state of anxiety, in a state of chaos, flying from one branch to another. The first bird is our infinite self, the infinite self that can be achieved through the state of yoga, sadhana, and samadhi—ancient meditation techniques that were mastered by the yogis of the East. The second bird is our finite self, the self that experiences the chaos, the darkness, the anxiety, that feels the burnout and doesn't know what to do. With this life? What if I told you I can teach you how to access the conscious awareness of the first birth, the infinite self? And I can teach this to you through the most powerful book ever written on yoga and meditation, and the name of the book is The practice of immortality.
