Carl, the leader of a flock of crows, was hailedas the smartest and the most daring by his fellow crows. Carl wascunning enough not to disillusion them in their belief. Insidehimself he was not so confident. The main reason for this was hisneighbor, Sam the swan. When Sam took to the air he glided and soaredwith a grace unparalleled in the avian world. He was so picturesque.This made Carl green with jealousy, as Carl's own flying was soawkward.
One day his jealousy for Sam took the better ofhim. He declared to his fellow crows, " I am superior to Sam. I shallperform many flights that are prettier than Sam's. I will show youmany graceful and amazing flights against just one same routineboring flight by Sam." In a moment Carl took off in the blue skywhile the whole crow community watched with great expectation.
Carl performed some amazing stunts. He flewstraight upward, then downward, then sideways, and in many loops, andvariations and so forth, yet not one encouraging applause came fromthe crows on the ground. He was getting disappointed with himself. Hegot nervous and tried more stunts, but nothing worked. Not one of hisflights was more elegant than that of Sam's. In the final desperationon his last flight, #52, he rocketed straight up in the air, and thendived head long imitating a hawk. That did it. He stalled badly, verybadly. He could not recover from the horrible stall, and hit theground headfirst. It was his fatal flight.
Epilogue
Babua Narad, the wise old owl said, "There is oneyoga and only one universal supreme yoga. Power yoga, Sport yoga,Lila yoga, Special yoga and many more, are all #52flights.