How do I directly know real love? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2016)

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How do I directly know real love? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2016)

Questioner (Q): Whatever we can say about love with words seems fake and inaccurate. How can one describe what love is using these limited instruments?

Acharya Prashant (AP): It is very sad that we all are attracted towards a peaceful sunset. It simply tells us that love pulls all of us; we all know what love is. To love is to be drawn towards something. Essentially, we are all drawn towards relaxation, fulfillment, peace. That is love—to be drawn towards the essential. To be drawn towards the essential is love, and we all are drawn towards that. And we are drawn so much towards the essential that we are prepared to drop the inessential in our movement towards the essential.

Q: What do you mean by the word ‘essential’ here?

AP: Essential, the real. Essential, central. Essence—essential. You know what the saints say about this movement towards the real, the central? They say that the more you move towards the Truth in love, the narrower your path becomes. It is like converging towards a center: the path keeps on getting narrower and narrower, and ultimately the path becomes so narrow that you, even you, cannot pass through it. It keeps on becoming narrower, so you keep dropping whatever you are carrying, you just lessen your belongings, your relationships, this and that, and ultimately it is just a point; even the smallest of the substances cannot pass through it. At the destination nobody reaches. The destination is there now, but nobody to reach.

Kabir says, “Jab mai tha tab Hari nahi, jab Hari hai tab mai nahi; prem gali ati sakari, tame do na samai

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