A surgeon’s table is never a beautiful sight to look at. Poets will find nothing there. There are scissors and instruments, and iron and blood and flesh cut apart. There is no happiness there. There is nothing pleasant there. Seekers of pleasantness will be disappointed looking at a surgeon’s table. But that table saves lives.
This summary is AI-generated. Please read the full article for complete understanding.
Questioner: Acharya ji, Rumi says, "We have been busy accumulating solace. Make us afraid of how we were." What does he mean by making us afraid of how we were?
Acharya Prashant: From Rumi to Kabir to the Upanishads, The importance of fear has been highlighted by the movers.
We can do strange things to our fear. I have seen a young boy who used to be terribly afraid of ghosts in the dark. And in the nights when he would be returning to his house — which was a little bit at an isolated place, he would need to pass a deserted stretch. It used to be a trial, a nightmare daily for him.
So, somebody gave him a solution. The solution was: close your eyes, keep walking, and start singing a song, and start thinking of all the beautiful things that you know of. It worked for him.
