Can you see something more important than your tiredness || Acharya Prashant, on Rumi (2015)
Video Information: Shabdyoga Satsang, 24.06.2015, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
~How to deal with our tiredness?
~How to be free from this tiredness?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
~How to deal with our tiredness?
~How to be free from this tiredness?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Transcript
00:00 So, Aparash is saying that after reading Rumi, a fear is rising.
00:15 What if the way too is tiring?
00:17 Then when did Rumi assure you that the way is not tiring?
00:26 In fact, all that Rumi is saying is you are already tired, that much is known.
00:36 You are prone, susceptible, vulnerable to tiredness, it is well known.
00:47 And somebody who is already tired is being invited to walk away, for sure he will get
00:56 only more tiredness.
00:59 So, there is no uncertainty, you are asking what if the way too is tiring?
01:09 There is no doubt.
01:10 Why are you feeling 50-50?
01:15 It is 100% certain that only more tiredness is going to be there.
01:23 Only more tiredness.
01:24 Rumi is honest, he won't hide these things.
01:27 He is saying it is tiring obviously.
01:32 But something more important than your weariness, your fatigue, something more compelling than
01:47 your tiredness would pull you.
01:58 That thing has come in the shape of Rumi, for now.
02:08 And that's the whole beauty of it.
02:14 Not tired, anybody would like to have a stroll.
02:20 It is pleasuresome.
02:22 I am not tired and just have had dinner, let's go for a night walk.
02:29 There is nothing in that walk.
02:39 But it becomes special when you are tired and you have no reason to walk and yet you
02:46 find yourself running.
02:51 And you are not deceiving yourself, you are not hiding it from yourself that you are tired.
02:56 Yes, obviously I am tired.
02:58 But there is something much more important than this.
03:03 I have to run.
03:07 What is more important than this?
03:09 Well, if there were a reason to walk, there could be a bigger reason to not to walk.
03:21 Every reason can be defeated by a bigger reason because reason always has its limits and boundaries.
03:32 So whatever is done for a reason can never be immense, it would always be petty.
03:40 One reason would compel you to do something, another reason would come in your way and
03:47 tell you to not to do it.
03:52 So what is the reason to walk?
03:53 There is no reason, just madness.
03:59 And Rumi is mad, always drunk.
04:05 He has no taste for water at all.
04:11 He says either give me wine or give me nothing, leave me alone.
04:23 Only such a madman can walk without reason.
04:28 So rest assured, there is a lot of tiredness.
04:35 The question is not at all about tiredness.
04:38 The question is do you know something bigger than tiredness?
04:43 Tiredness is assured, guaranteed.
04:47 So relax your heart.
04:51 There is no need for your mind to be uncertain about the question of tiredness.
04:58 Tell your mind to relax.
05:02 Tell it tiredness is certain.
05:07 Then come to the bigger question.
05:10 Do I only know the mind?
05:12 Do I only know tiredness?
05:17 Or do I know something of the heart?
05:19 Do I know something beyond tiredness?
05:23 Remember, beyond tiredness does not mean not tired.
05:33 Beyond tired does not mean not tired.
05:39 Beyond tired means tired yet not tired.
05:45 You will have to appreciate the subtle difference.
05:48 If you are not tired, then you can get tired.
05:51 These are dualistic stages.
05:53 The one who is not tired in the morning will be tired by the night.
05:59 But the one who is not tired even when tired will never be tired.
06:06 Not tired when not tired and not tired when tired.
06:17 And this not tired, remember, is not the same as the not tiredness that you feel in the
06:23 morning.
06:24 It is not physical, not mental.
06:28 When I am saying not tired or beyond tired, when I am saying not tired, I mean beyond
06:37 tiredness.
06:43 This is not the relaxation that you experience when you wake up after eight hours sleep.
06:52 I am not talking of that relaxation.
06:54 I am talking of something within your heart that refuses to not to walk towards your love
07:03 even when you are deeply tired.
07:07 You are deeply tired.
07:09 In fact your body may be shredded.
07:16 You may have been reduced to a mass of wounds and yet you are walking.
07:23 Yet you are walking.
07:24 That is what is beyond tiredness.
07:27 Kabir says, zara zara ho rahe tabahu na chhade khet.
07:35 So you have been really shredded down, zara zara.
07:40 You hardly are in one piece physically and yet you refuse to give up.
07:57 You cannot give up.
07:58 You are that.
07:59 How will you give yourself up?
08:07 Something so dear, something so intrinsic that it is improbable, impossible, undoable
08:24 that it can be dissociated from you.
08:29 That is the question.
08:31 Do you know something of that?
08:33 Is there something in your life, anything in your life that is so precious that you
08:40 cannot separate from it come what may?
08:51 If yes, then this is the way.
09:06 If no, then go and sleep.
09:11 You are tired.
09:12 You are tired.
09:28 You are tired.