Before death takes away what you are given,
give away what there is to give.
Rumi
Acharya Prashant: Here is something from Rumi: “Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”
The question says, “Statements like these are interpreted as being pleasure aversive, and we already are pain aversive, so together it means being life aversive. Is Rumi really talking about being life aversive?”
I’ll repeat the quote, “Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”
‘Giving’ is the keyword. Let’s go close to it and understand it. ‘Giving’ happens at three different levels. All three are connected to each other, yet there is a dimensional difference between the three. The three appear to be progressively leading to each other, yet there is also a quantum jump from the first to the second and from the second to the third. The first kind of giving is the giving that we are all very familiar with.
