Are these absurdities or miracles or what? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2019)

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Video Information: Shabdyog session, 15.05.2019, Advait Bodhsthal, Greater Noida, India

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What is the key to the universe?
Are these absurdities or miracles or what?
What is the significance of the reverse tree?
Does Kabir Saheb mean different colors of prakrati?
What is the universe's method?

एक अचंभा देखा रे भाई, ठाढ़ा सिंध चरावै गाई॥
पहले पूत पीछे भइ माँई, चेला कै गुरु लागै पाई।
जल की मछली तरवर ब्याई, पकरि बिलाई मुरगै खाई॥
बैलहि डारि गूँनि घरि आई, कुत्ता कूँ लै गई बिलाई॥
तलिकर साषा ऊपरि करि मूल बहुत भाँति जड़ लगे फूल।
कहै कबीर या पद को बूझै, ताँकूँ तीन्यूँ त्रिभुवन सूझै॥
Brother, I have seen some astonishing sights, a lion keeping watch over pasturing cows.
A mother delivered after her son was, a guru prostrated before his disciple.
Fish spawning on treetops, a cat carrying away a dog.
A gunny sack driving a bullock cart, a buffalo going out to graze sitting on a horse.
A tree with branches in the earth, its roots in the sky, a tree with flowering roots.
This verse says Kabir is your key to the universe, if you can figure it out.
~Saint Kabir .


Music Credits: Milind Date
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11:00PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
11:10PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
11:20PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
11:28PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
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11:48PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
11:58PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
12:08PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
12:18PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
12:28PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
12:38PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
12:48I cannot bear this separation, Kamala.
12:56Kamala, this physical separation is too much.
13:03That's why I repeatedly want to have intercourse.
13:08But even there our bodies get to meet only briefly.
13:14The depth of association is not much.
13:18So I now want to have you fully inside me.
13:22Tu mujhme sama jaaye.
13:25As the Sufis say.
13:30And he will go to her and teach her.
13:33Fana is a very high state of spiritual dissolution.
13:39Now is your time to reach fana, in love.
13:46And what greater end can you meet?
13:52Come, unite with the lover.
14:01Are you getting it?
14:04The tendency is just to have flesh.
14:08But a justification is invented.
14:11And then it is claimed that the action is coming from the justification.
14:17PAHLE POOT PACHE BHAI MAI
14:20When it happens in our homes, in our universe, then we don't find it strange.
14:25But if it starts happening in Prakriti, then you will see this kind of an oddity.
14:33The child is there and after the child is born, the mother is born.
14:39And then you will say, Oh my God, what Kalyug?
14:42The child is born and the mother is younger than the child.
14:50But that is happening every day in our personal universe.
14:53And we never find it odd.
14:58Getting it?
15:02Then CHELA KE GURU LA GAYE PAI
15:05If you start seeing that, then you will say, Oh, too bad.
15:15The guru is prostrating in front of the student.
15:18What is going on?
15:21Evil times.
15:23But that is happening all the time in man's universe.
15:29There is no teacher worth the name who has not prostrated in front of the disciples.
15:39The disciple prostrates externally.
15:42He will say, Oh, Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu.
15:45This is just physical, external, for namesake.
15:49It is the teacher who is actually prostrating in front of the disciple.
15:55Please listen to me.
15:58For a second, can you please give up your prejudices?
16:03Once in your life, can you please pay attention?
16:12But our eyes see only the external.
16:18And seeing the external, they are happy and satisfied.
16:21They will say all is well.
16:24All is as per course and order.
16:29The students are paying obeisance to the guru.
16:35This is what the eyes see.
16:37But what is really happening?
16:39The guru is all the time requesting the student, touching his feet,
16:52flattering him, nudging him,
17:00entertaining him.
17:08But that is not obvious.
17:13Just as what is obvious to the grass is not obvious to the cow.
17:29जलकी मच्री तरवरी ब्याही पकड़ बिलाई मुर्गे खाई
17:39बैलही डारी गूने घरे आई कूता कू ले गई बिलाई
17:45All these four instances refer to an upending of the normal order in Prakriti.
17:54The normal order has been inverted, upended.
18:01जलकी मच्री तरवरी ब्याही The fish in the water is residing and procreating on the treetops.
18:17पकड़ बिलाई मुर्गे खाई
18:23The cock has caught the cat and devoured it.
18:34बैलही डारी गूने घरे आई
18:43The material, the gunny sacks, बोरा, are leading the oxen as they are coming towards the house.
18:59So the cart is leading the bull.
19:10कूता कू ले गई बिलाई
19:13So the cat has now had its revenge.
19:24The cock or the hen took away the cat.
19:28So the brother cat took away the dog.
19:33Now Sher Singh is in danger because the dog too will have his day.
19:43As they say, each dog has his day.
19:51So the normal prakritic order is being shown to be reversed.
20:00When it is reversed there, then you say this is not proper.
20:03This is against Tao.
20:06This is against Rit.
20:15But when the same thing happens within man,
20:20then you do not find anything funny at all.
20:28In prakriti, the one who is supposed to be higher up in the food chain
20:38must consume the one who is lower down.
20:42And the reversal cannot happen.
20:45Inside man, that which is higher must lord over the lower.
20:50And the reversal must not happen, but it is always happening.
20:56The higher one must be given preference over the lower, but that rarely happens.
21:03The lower wins, the higher loses.
21:07Tendencies win, thought loses.
21:10Thought wins, discretion loses.
21:17Mind wins, Atma loses.
21:26Influence wins, intelligence loses.
21:36And Kabir Sahab, he is having a good time.
21:46Describing how we are.
21:49And even as he is very accurately describing how we are,
21:53he is also having fun at our expense.
21:57That's why, you know, I feel just like a fanboy in front of him.
22:10Who am I? A little fanboy.
22:15This utter flamboyance, this total carefree attitude.
22:26Where do you find God or Sanskrit or big words or scholarliness in this?
22:35Kuta ko le gayi bilai.
22:37And he has said everything.
22:39Such simplicity can come only from someone who has gone to the utter depth of it.
22:55So it is both strange and revealing that in the same session in which while answering
23:07Parameswari, I had to launch a broadside, a tirade against the greats.
23:17I feel honored to say that when it comes to Kabir Sahab, I am a fanboy.
23:38And now that you have said this, this is going to resonate for a while.
23:46Pahle poot pachhe bhai mai.
23:49So whenever somebody, anybody outside of me or maybe I come up with an argument to cover up
24:04an expression of what is essentially a vritti, this is what to be said.
24:10Pahle poot pachhe bhai mai.
24:20Thaada sher charaave gayi.
24:25Thaada sher charaave gayi.
24:29So the parents are fondly taking the little Chotu to school for admission.
24:42And from the car the two of them emerge and Chotu is walking in middle of both of them.
24:48One hand with Sher Singh, the other hand with Shirini Singh.
24:54And they are both professing their love to Chotu and saying now we are going to admit him in the school.
25:02Thaada sher charaave gayi.
25:07He is going to stay for a while.
25:13And obviously, chela ke guru lagay payi.
25:21I don't even need to remember this.
25:24I live this every moment.
25:36It's a good thing to put on a Facebook profile or a WhatsApp status or something.
25:41Chela ke guru lagay payi.
25:44Just to be reminded of how things really are.
25:49Eyes live in deception.
25:52This is how things really are.
25:55Can you please, please send me the report Anu?
25:58Chela ke guru lagay payi.
26:02Sixth reminder.
26:05And a cute smile.
26:13Chela ke guru lagay payi.
26:15Kaun guru kaun chela.
26:25Now.
26:28Tali kari saakha, upari kari mool, bahut bhaati jad lagay phool.
26:34This kanika comes actually from chapter 15 of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita.
26:45Chapter 15.
26:48Shri Krishna very vividly describes this world as the banyan tree with its roots to the sky.
27:08Maybe Kabir Saheb is quoting from the Gita.
27:13Maybe it is his own imagery.
27:20But it's interesting how these coincide and how the greats have always seen the world as an exercise in negativa.
27:36Negativa.
27:37That reminds me of negatives.
27:40You know, before the digital age, there used to be negatives in photography.
27:53And what was the characteristic of those negatives?
27:58Light was dark and dark was light.
28:02Light was dark and dark was light.
28:05Have you seen those negatives?
28:09So, it's a bit similar to negatives.
28:12That's how Shri Krishna has described it.
28:14That's also what Kabir Saheb means here.
28:23What works in this world doesn't work there.
28:32That's one way of looking at it.
28:33It's an exercise in negative.
28:36Secondly, the roots are up.
28:39The flowering is down.
28:41You are really coming from there.
28:43You are really coming from there.
28:45You are only flowering here.
28:47And even if you want to flower here, even if you want to blossom here,
28:51then you must first of all take care of the root which is upwards.
28:55If you do not take care of the roots, then you cannot prosper on the earth.
29:01If you do not take care of the sky, you cannot prosper on the earth.
29:14So, the flowers are there.
29:16The roots are flowering.
29:19But the roots are not where they are usually supposed to be.
29:24They are skywards.
29:27Skywards roots blossom.
29:38Those whose roots are in the earth,
29:48they will just shrivel and die down.
29:51Those who feel that they are rooted in the earth,
29:55those who feel that they belong to the earth,
30:01will meet no prosperity and no blossoming.
30:05Whereas those who feel, live, as if they come from there,
30:10as if they belong there, as if they are rooted there,
30:14they will rule the earth.
30:18Belong to the earth and you will be a beggar on the face of earth.
30:25Belong to the sky and you will rule the earth.
30:30The earth doesn't reward you for belonging to it.
30:34The earth rewards you for bringing the sky's message to it.
30:43You are like the sky's messenger to the earth.
30:50The messenger is greatly rewarded if he brings the message.
30:56If he brings the message,
30:59then he gets stuff, sweets, clothes, money, greetings, gratitude.
31:10But what if he starts living in the house to which he has brought the message?
31:16Then he is merely tolerated and after a time he is abused.
31:21His value does not lie in his existence.
31:24His value lies in the message that he brings.
31:30You too must live like the one coming from the sky
31:34and merely visiting the earth to deliver the message.
31:39If you are a visitor to the earth, you will be respected on the earth.
31:45If you live like a visitor, a mere visitor to the earth,
31:49then you will have great respect on the earth.
31:53But if you start living as if the earth is your home,
31:57then all you will get is neglect, abuse, disrespect, uprootedness.
32:04If you can know what has been said in these verses,
32:24then you have known the entire universe.
32:27That's what Kabir Sahib is saying.
32:31He plays with you.
32:33He challenges you, invites you and he says if you can figure out what has been said,
32:37then you will be somebody.
32:40So try, try, try.
32:43Here's the lollipop, now try.
32:47Come on, come on, jump over the hurdles.
32:50And there he is, standing behind all the hurdles,
32:53flashing the lollipop to you.
32:55Come, come, come, jump over.
32:58Don't be shy.
33:03And when you say, no, no, no, but these are just too high for me.
33:07I don't know what you mean by the cow, the grass, the lion, the fish,
33:15the ox, the dog, the tree.
33:18Too many things and too difficult for me.
33:21He says, one more.
33:24Not one word, but tribhuvan.
33:30Here is a third one as well.
33:33You can have three of these sweet things.
33:38Just come over, come over.
33:44And the fanboy says, okay, I'm coming.
33:51And he's not unfair, I duly do get my reward.
33:55Hmm?
34:01Acharya ji, going back to the previous verse,
34:05first and foremost, my gratitude to you
34:08for explaining such a surreal verse to all of us.
34:14And in that verse, Kabir sahib is saying that
34:18we're pretty much living surreal lives.
34:20We see that sometimes, we see the imagery
34:23and we're able to identify it.
34:26But then again, I'm back to the same old path
34:32of getting lost in the surreal images.
34:36How to distill my clarity and vision
34:43to kind of decipher that what is surreal and what is real.
34:49The surreal will give you suffering.
34:54Surreal will deceive you.
34:58Your own tears are the test.
35:03See what pushes you into needless conflict.
35:11Needless conflict.
35:16See what is it that promises and does not deliver.
35:21See what is it that appears smooth and shiny on the surface,
35:26but forbids any kind of deep probing.
35:35Hmm?
35:40Hmm?
35:45It's easy.
35:50The truth attaches no qualifications to itself.
35:54So, the truth has made it very easy for you.
35:58Where to find the truth?
36:01If it were to be found somewhere,
36:02it would have become difficult for you.
36:04You would have needed to go there and dig it out.
36:08Where to find it?
36:09Everywhere and nowhere.
36:11Easy.
36:14Where does the truth end?
36:15Nowhere.
36:16So, if something ends somewhere, it is false.
36:21If something is found only somewhere in particular, it is false.
36:28If something is having boundaries,
36:32if something changes with time,
36:36if something is a product of something,
36:39if something gives rise to something,
36:43if something is the opposite of something,
36:49the truth has made it very easy for you.
36:52Very easy.
36:54The fact is, in the world, stuff is difficult.
36:59Truth is the easiest.
37:03Easy, but not common.
37:10Commonly, it is very difficult.
37:13Actually, it is very easy.
37:19It is so easy that we miss it.
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