Without seeing the Beloved, how will he live? || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Kabir (2019)
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Video Information: Shabdyog session, 16.1.19, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
What does the seeker say?
What is the difference between a saint and a common man?
Why do we feel bad?
Why does one feel separated?
Why mind is conditioned to be restlessness?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: Shabdyog session, 16.1.19, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India
Context:
What does the seeker say?
What is the difference between a saint and a common man?
Why do we feel bad?
Why does one feel separated?
Why mind is conditioned to be restlessness?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Balam Aavo Hamre Gehare, Tum Bin Dukhia Dehare, Sab Koi Kahat Tumhari Nari, Moko Ihai Andehare,
00:15Dil Se Nahi Dil Lagavo, Tab Lak Kaisa Sanehare, Ek Mek Hove Sej Na Sove, Tab Tak Kaisa Nehare,
00:28Ann Nabhave, Neen Nabhave, Ghar Bar Dhare Nadheerare, Kamin Hai Balam Pyara, Jun Pyaase Ko Neerare,
00:41Hai Koi Aisa Par Upkaari, Piyu Se Kahun Sunaye Re, Ab To Behaal Kabir Bhayo Hai, Bin Dekhe Jeev Jaaye Re.
00:54The mind is referring to its Lord. The seeker is addressing the sought.
01:14The devotee is talking to God. Kabir is singing to Ram. Balam Aavo Hamre Gehare.
01:29Come, please come. In principle, I have been told, says the seeker, the waiting one.
01:52The one feeling the pangs of separation. In principle, I have been told that you are my Lord and I am all yours.
02:10I am your woman, your wife. But what kind of servant am I? What kind of woman am I?
02:30If you are so far away from me, it's poignant. It's very touching when you say. And look at the difference between the saint and the common man.
02:51The common man is reconciled to the intellectual fact of separation. So the common man would intellectually declare,
03:10Well, you see, there is the mind and there is the source. And there are so many philosophies that declare that the mind is craving for the source.
03:24And even when the intellectual talks all this bookish knowledge, he is himself feeling no discomfort. He is himself feeling no separation.
03:46He knows of separation as a principle, as a concept. He does not feel any separation. He is shameless. If you see, he is saying, the Lord is away from me.
04:03And he is saying this with a straight face, with eyes that feel no shame. He'll say, you know, the mind is designed to be restless.
04:23And he will say this as if he has just talked about a distant stone on some godforsaken mountain. He does not even realize that he has said something very horrible about himself.
04:47You get this? He has just said the mind is conditioned to be restless. Now whose mind are you talking of? You're talking of yourself.
04:59There should have been a convulsion with him. Simply put, you should have felt bad, but you don't feel bad. You talk of it in objective terms, whereas it is purely subjective.
05:23You're talking of something that applies to you, something that is within you. It does not apply only to you, but it applies to you as well. Now how can then you be so objective about it?
05:37But the intellectual talks of everything as if he is so detached, whereas he is not. He is just insensitive most of the times.
05:55Why? Because he takes sensitivity as sentimentality. He takes an admission of sensitivity as a weakness. Why? Because he has been trained in the scientific method. In the scientific method, there is nothing called subjectivity.
06:20There are only objects that you have to look at as if you are nobody, whereas in spirituality you begin with the admission that you are somebody.
06:35When people enter literature or humanities with the same mindset as they have when they enter science or mathematics,
06:57then a lot of ugliness happens. You have people teaching Kabir in universities as if Kabir is literature.
07:19If you are talking of Kabir and you are not melting within, if your eyes are not wet, what right do you have to utter even a word of Kabir?
07:39But a university professor does not simply realize that these things are not objective.
07:59Look at Kabir Saheb. He says, I have been told that I am your lover. That's what Vedanta tells me. That's what Sankhya Yoga tells me. That's what the saints tell me. That's what the Bhakti tradition tells me.
08:22All of them tell me the same thing. And when they tell me that, O Lord, I am your woman, then I feel so utterly ashamed.
08:39Because the thing is not intellectual. The thing is not objective. It pertains to me, myself, my identity, my life. What kind of woman am I who cannot get to her Lord?
09:03What kind of woman am I who keeps displeasing her Lord?
09:22The entire world tells me, I am your woman. And the more I hear that I belong to you, the more I get buried in shame and disgust.
09:43If ours is really such an intimate relationship, then I must have done something horribly wrong to be thrown so far away from you. And that's a cause for serious guilt.
10:07It does not let me eat, let me breathe. I constantly keep asking myself, what crime did I commit? And I'm pretty sure that I have made some heinous mistake.
10:27Otherwise, such an intimate relationship could not have gone so wrong. Today there is an ocean between us.
10:47A bhaav sagar that I cannot conquer. I cannot even see the other side of it. I must have been very, very distracted.
11:06I must have been very, very disloyal to you. I must have acted very, very unloving that I have come so far away from you.
11:23And so Kabir Sahab says, I am very, very uncomfortable, remorseful, tearful.
11:37This is the question that the honest seeker asks. The separation is surely not from the side of the Lord. I am the one who is causing the separation.
12:00And if I am responsible, must I not first of all realize and accept my guilt?
12:16Must I first of all not see how my patterns have resulted in my beloved Lord appearing so far away from me today?
12:35It was not His wish to be away. I did it. And therefore I am ashamed.
12:50Ab toh behaal Kabir bhaiyo hai, bin dekhe jeev jaaye re. A common man is never behaal. Behaal means distraught.
13:11Common man, continues to be. I am fine. If you ever ask the common man, how are you, he will never say behaal. He will say I am good.
13:33And Kabir Sahab says, bin dekhe jeev jaaye re. A common man has no such urge.
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