If you are too afraid to bleed then God’s bar is not for you || Acharya Prashant,on Saint Rumi(2016)

“The wine we really drink is our own blood, our bodies ferment in these barrels. We give everything for a glass of this. We give our minds for a sip.” ~ Rumi

Acharya Prashant: What does it mean when it is said ‘The wine that we drink is our own blood?’ What does wine stand for?

Listener 1: Pleasure

AP: No, Real Joy! Something that makes you lose your thinking mind, something that intoxicates you, something that takes away all your cleverness. That is wine. Divine Joy that overpowers you is referred to as wine. The wine that we drink is our own blood. Now, what does that mean?

L2: It is our nature.

AP: No

L3: Is it the ‘I’, the Ego?