The saints don't display affection at all. Affection actually means disease. Affection means disease. The saints have no affection. The saints have love and love has nothing to do with affection. Affection and affliction go together. It is not affection that characterizes a saint. It is love that characterizes him. Affection and dryness, they go together. Together always. And affection and love, they never go together. So you have to be very clear about what accompanies what.
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Questioner Acharya Ji, I have been listening to Sufi and Bhakti poetry. Despite being intellectuals and scholars, for example, Kabir Sahab and Kushro, they put emphasis on affection rather than smartness, cunningness and intellect. Is that because generally intellectuals are considered detached and to explore the opposite, they now are putting more emphasis to affection?
Acharya Prashant: No, not at all. In fact, intellect and attachment and the normal kind of affection, they go together. You know what is the dictionary meaning of affection? You'll be surprised. What is affection? Just check the pure meaning. The common meaning is affection means love. Figure out and let me know.
Intellect can be very, very attached. In fact, intellect will be attached. So, it is not as if intellect and affection are opposite of each other. No, if you want to understand the words that belong to these two dimensions, you will have to consider the respective sets.
