The core matter of all your matters || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Kabir (2018)

Acharya Prashant

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The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it. The moon is within me, and so is the sun.

~ Kabir

Questioner (Q): What does Kabir mean by moon and sun here? What does he mean when he says that they are within him, and that the moon shines within his body but his blind eyes cannot see it?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Not only are the moon and the sun within the observer, the entire universe is also in the observer. Even the observer is in the observer. Not one moon, not one sun—millions of moons and billions of suns.

Q: “Ya ghat andar saat samandar, ya hi me naulakh taara (The seven seas are in this body; even the most precious of gems is here within)…”

AP: “…Avadhu, andhadhun andhiyaara (Avadhu, there is darkness everywhere).”

The first half an hour today, the subject is the object. There is nothing outside of you that is not a function of who you are. Man does not

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