"Listen to the birdsong, not the song of the mind," says Osho. His disciple, Swami Amano Samarpan has been doing just that for 20 years photographing birds and has recently published a book useful and attractive. This is an excellent field guide and practice, with striking color photographs that capture the beauty, details and colors of hundreds of birds from all corners of the subcontinent. White legends and tips for identifying short add to the value this field guide.

His book "Birds of India, and Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan," published by Wisdom Tree was an instant hit in the World Book Fair 2006, New Delhi, and later in bookstores. No wonder the book has introduced a number of issues. Reviews of this book have appeared in all major Indian newspapers. common and exotic birds in India are sensitive to color identification and names in a pocket-sized Country Guide. Every tourist who visits India and is delighted with their beautiful and colorful birds must obtain a copy of this book to see more birds and enjoy bird observation further.

Samarpan went to India two or three times a year from his home in the UK for meditation and bird photography. His coming to meet Osho in 1979 and became a disciple in 1994. His photographs of birds of Osho Dham New Delhi, Osho Meditation Resort International, Pune, also have been published in two publications by Osho – Osho World and the former Osho Times.

After resting and nesting birds, robbed and jumped in the Osho World Galleria New Delhi for a week in March 2006 when an exhibition of his photographs was held and attracted much attention. The beautiful images were created by Swami Amano Samarpan is clicking on birds in the hills and valleys, plains and deserts, forests and ravines of India. Most birds in India are rarely seen. By Swami Samarpan, the bird photography is meditation, because it requires a deep inner silence, unity with nature and infinite patience. He says that the identification of birds in nature is not the only reason to watch birds, but we have a deep need to be touched by its magnificence.

Tuning in nature is not meditation, but it can help a meditative state to emerge, "said Samarpan whose real name is Mark Tracy, but he uses his name to Osho – even for the book." Meditation is a natural state of mind, but we lost the art. Birding helps me to continue to contact me. You can do the same for everyone else. It helps quiet the mind makes it easier to meditation "Samarpan has traveled extensively throughout India and Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet -. Reflection and photographing birds.

At the end of his book, Samarpan answers the old question: "Who comes first? The chicken or the egg?" Many found this question unanswered by the assumption that the egg in question must be a chicken egg! In fact, chickens were only a few thousand years … the egg has been around for millions of years before the arrival of the first birds to about 150 million years! The dinosaurs that birds evolved since eggs. The answer is: "The egg!"

"A bird that flies in the sky does not leave footprints, and the route is created behind it. It is the heaven of truth. The released during flight, but no traces left behind and no way created "-. Osho.

Editor, Author, Special Correspondent, Publisher, Media Consultant, An Osho disciple, Kul Bhushan has worked for major newspapers, news agencies, a UN agency in various key positions and travelled to over 50 countries. Currently, he is the Executive Editor of Newstech Publishing Inc http://www.newstechglobal.com. He specialises in writing on NRI (Non Resident Indians) affairs. http://www.kulbhushan.net.

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