Saint Kabir

साहब नज़र रखना, मौला नज़र रखना तेरा करम सबको मिले, सबकी फ़िक्र रखना न आदमी की आदमी झेले गुलामियाँ, न आदमी से आदमी मांगे सलामियाँ जो फ़र्क पैदा हो रहे, वो फ़र्क गर्क हों सबको बराबर बाँट, ये धरती ये आसमान कोई भी न हो दर्द में, सबकी ख़बर रखना… read_more

Acharya Prashant: Suffering is a fire that burns down a lot. It brings along a certain purification. One of the poets gave the example of a snowball. Snowball that is cleansing itself in its own blood; by melting down. When a snowball starts melting, it starts becoming cleaner. And the… read_more

If you cannot win the love of the Lord, so what if you can lord over your neighbor? What is the good of dressing your hair and donning your feet with jingling jewelry? What is the value of all your makeup with kajal to your eyelids and vermilion to your … read_more

प्रश्न: आचार्य जी, हम पूर्णता के भाव तक कैसे पहुँचे?

आचार्य प्रशांत: पूर्णता के भाव तक पहुँचे कैसे, शुरुआत यहाँ से करते हैं। पूर्णता कोई भाव है ही नहीं, तो उस तक पहुँचने का भी कोई प्रश्न नहीं है।

आप (प्रश्नकर्ता) कहते हैं कि आपने मेरा लिखा पढ़ा है, थोड़ा… read_more

आचार्य प्रशांत: देखो, डाउट और ट्रस्ट दोनों किसी ऑब्जेक्ट पर होते हैं। फ़ेथ भी जब तक उस तरह की है कि कोई ऑब्जेक्ट है उसका, तब तक तो घटेगी-बढ़ेगी है ही। फ़ेथ एबसोल्यूट तब होती है जब वो ऑब्जेक्टलेस (निष्प्रयोजन) होती है। अगर तुम इतना भी कह रहे हो न… read_more

Acharya Prashant: Love is the fire that melts down the bondage that is you. Knowledge is merely the light in which you can see your bondages. Even if you are able to look at your chains in the light of knowledge, that does not rid you of the chains. In… read_more

Love clouds have gathered, it is raining down on me; my entire soul is soaked in it, all around there is greenery.

~ Kabir Sahab

Questioner: Could you please elaborate on the meaning of this poem?

Acharya Prashant: Just sing what Kabir Sahib is saying. Just sing! I may keep… read_more

Questioner: Acharya Ji, a good discussion happened yesterday in which many seekers participated and shared their understanding of Prakṛiti , Puruṣha and other things.

During the discussion, it was put that Prakṛiti , Puruṣha , Māyā , are mere concepts and that one is pure Ātman , never threatened and… read_more

Acharya Prashant: I might be a very violent man. And my goal is to blast a building off. To learn how to do it, I have to live through stern discipline. I will have to build my body, I will have to learn several skills. I may have the discipline… read_more

Acharya Prashant: Desire means that you are not alright with yourself and you want something else to happen, correct? So, we are anyway not living for ourselves. We are rather living to change ourselves. And are these not two very different things? If you are living for yourself as you… read_more

Questioner: Whenever I succeed in achieving something, I immediately start looking for something else, and when I succeed in finding that something else, again I find myself in the same situation. What am I really looking for?

Acharya Prashant: That which you commonly look for and that which you achieve… read_more

Questioner: How can we expose the subconscious mind?

Acharya Prashant: By watching your daily actions very, very closely.

Alright, somebody comes to you and says, ‘Namaste'. Quickly show me how you respond.

[Listeners: Namaste (keeping hands together and smiling)]

So, you are smiling. And the moment the fellow is gone,… read_more

How do you, ask the chief of police, patrol a city, where the butcher shops are guarded by vultures, where bulls get pregnant, cows are barren, and calves give milk three times a day, where mice are the boatmen, and tomcats row the boats, where frogs keep snakes as watchdogs, … read_more

Acharya Prashant: Latha is saying, why does she get angry so often even over small matters? Especially with some people, she is unable to control anger and she says she tried to change her attitude but hasn’t been quite successful. She is saying, now, how to change myself. Because anger… read_more

Questioner: Sir, when you were growing up, is there any special memory, or any time you realized and had this aspiration to become, or go on the spiritual path? Is there something interesting related to your life, from your childhood, that you want us to know?

Acharya Prashant: First of… read_more

Questioner: Namskar Acharya ji. Pardon me for not remembering exactly but in one of the shivirs where we had read ‘Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna’ to come to terms with this expression called ‘Adhikar Bhed.’

So therein Ramakrishna was saying that, “now in modern times there cannot be any Adhikar Bhed,… read_more

Questioner: Acharya Ji, if the decisions that one takes in one’s life is a matter of choice, then what is Grace?

Acharya Prashant: Grace is that which is available free of cost, grace is that which comes to you unconditionally, grace is not something that you receive unconditionally. There’s many… read_more

Questioner: I have a question about Kabir. As I know, he was also a kind of Sufi, not just Hindu or Muslim, he…

Speaker: See, the heart of Sufism and the heart of Vedanta , the heart of Hasidism , the heart of Christian mysticism, they are all one Heart.… read_more

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, नमस्ते। मैं तनाव, दबाव माने प्रेशर सिचुएशन (तनावपूर्ण स्थिति) झेल नहीं पाता हूँ। जैसे ही मुझ पर दबाव पड़ता है बाहर से, मैं टूट जाता हूँ अन्दर से। अभी जवान हूँ तो ये हालत है और पूरी ज़िन्दगी सामने पड़ी है। न जाने क्या-क्या चुनौतियाँ आनी हैं,… read_more

प्रश्नकर्ता: सब ही भूमि बनारसी, सब नीर गंगा तोय। ज्ञानी आतम राम है, जो निर्मल घट होय।। ~गुरु कबीर साहब

आचार्य जी, मेरी समझ से इस दोहे का ये अर्थ है कि ज्ञानीजन कोई भेदभाव नहीं करते। उनके लिए सिर्फ़ गंगाजल ही पवित्र नहीं होता, बल्कि हर जगह का जल… read_more

प्रश्नकर्ता नमस्ते सर, आज की बातचीत थोड़ी कॉन्ट्रोवर्शियल (विवादित) होने वाली है

आचार्य प्रशांत: कोई बात नहीं होती रहती है कॉन्ट्रोवर्शी।

प्र: मैं आपसे गुरुओं के ऊपर बात करना चाहता हूँ और इस पूरी बात की शुरुआत आज से दस या बारह साल पहले से होती है।

आचार्य: क्या हुआ… read_more

प्रश्नकर्ता: सर, हम हमेशा कहते हैं कि एचआईडीपी (सम्पूर्ण विकास पाठ्यक्रम) का मतलब है अपनेआप को जानना। मैंने कुछ समय पहले अपने बारे में एक बात गौर की। एक दिन मैं जब सुबह कॉलेज के लिए निकल रहा था तो गलती से अपनी घड़ी घर पर भूल गया। सर, वह… read_more

यस्यामिमे घण्नरदेव दस्यव: सार्थ विलुम्पन्ति कुनायकं बलातू। गोमायवो यत्न हरन्ति सार्थिकं प्रमत्तमाविश्य यथोरणं बवृका:।।

अर्थ: महाराज, उस जंगल में छ: डाकू हैं। इस वणिक समाज का नायक बड़ा दुष्ट है। उसके नेतृत्व में जब यह समाज वहाँ पहुँचता है, तब ये लुटेरे बलात उसे लूट लेते हैं।

~ परमहंस गीता… read_more

तत्व क्षेत्रं व्योमातीतमहं क्षेत्रज्ञ उच्यते। अहं कर्ता च भोक्ता च जीवनमुक्त: स उच्यते।।

पृथ्वी, जल, अग्नि, वायु, आकाश इन पंच तत्वों से बना ये शरीर ही क्षेत्र है तथा आकाश से परे अहंकार ही क्षेत्रज्ञ है। ये ‘मैं’ ही समस्त कर्मों का कर्ता और कर्म फलों का भोक्ता है, इस … read_more

सर्वभावं न सन्देह : सर्वं नास्ति न संशय:। सर्वं तुच्छं न सन्देह : सर्वं माया न संशय:।।

All is thought. There is no doubt of this. All is not. And there is no doubt of this. All is trifling. And there is no doubt of this. All is illusion. And … read_more

Question: Acharya Ji, how is music related to Spirituality? What do Bhakti Saints sing of?

Acharya Prashant Ji: Sing with a Kabir, or sing Kabir with yourself. That’s the best thing.

The best thing is to sing.

The best thing is to – sing.

But you know, we have become … read_more

Oh Friend, I love you. Think this over, carefully. If you are in Love, then why are you asleep? If you have found him, give yourself to him, take him. Why do you lose track of him again and again? If you are about to fall, into heavy sleep anyway, … read_more

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, Pranam, “Love is an egocentric manifestation: The Essential Oneness of all life has no room for love.” ~Wei Wu Wei

Acharya Ji, kindly shed light on this quote. In my first camp, I asked ‘How to be loving’, without knowing what that word meant. Now, I… read_more

Questioner (Q): Namaste, sir. My question is, in these teenage years, how do we avoid social evils like bad addiction and bad activities which exist in society and just focus on our goal?

Acharya Prashant (AP): For that, the goal has to be alluring enough. The goal has to be… read_more

“You failed to know your Love in your youth Wake up and see your Love is gone.”

~ Saint Kabir

Acharya Prashant (AP): Youth refers to a time when you are physically neither dependent nor incapable. After a particular time, you become physically incapable. And what happens to the rest… read_more

Tohi more lagan lagaye re fakirwa

Sovat hi main apne mandir mein Shabd baan mari jagaye re fakirwa

Tohi more lagan lagaye re fakirwa

Doobat hi bhav ke saagar mein Bahinyan pakari samajhaye re fakirwa

Tohi more lagan lagaye re fakirwa

Ek vachan vachan nahi duja, bandhan mohe chhudaye re … read_more

पानी बीच बतासा संतों,

तन का यही तमासा है।।

क्या ले आया, क्या ले जाएगा,

क्या बैठा पछताता है।।

मूठी बाँधे आये जगत में,

हाथ पसारे जाता है।।

किसकी नारी, कौन पुरुष है,

कहाँ से लगता नाता है।।

बड़े निहाल, खबर ना तन की,

बिरही लहर बुझाता है।।

इक दिन … read_more

Questioner (Q): Most often we are asked to live in the present and be here and now and mindful. Can you talk to us about that?

Acharya Prashant (AP): The same thing, I mean, when we were talking about what to do with knowledge, I said it depends on the… read_more

Such fantastic mastery is rarely seen elsewhere. Obviously, you get glimpses of it in many other places as well. I respect all of them; all of them are very, very dear to me; I worship them. But when it comes to Kabir Sahib, I said I am a fanboy. When… read_more

Jo main piyake man nahin bhaaye To kaa padosin kaie dulraye Kahaa chudaa paayal jhamkaaye kahaa bhaye bichuaa thankaaye Kahaa kaajar sindoor kaie diyyaie solaah singaar kahaa bhaye kiyaie Anjan manjan karaie thagauree ka pachi maraie thagauree bauree Jo patibrataa hai naree kaisehi raho so pihayee piyaree Tan man jeevan … read_more