When you are reading the Upanishads, and your face has a sudden radiance, and you feel for yourself what it means to say, ‘pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idam,’ then I will say, “That! That is Bharat.” Otherwise, what do ‘bha’ and ‘rat’ mean? Nothing. All this is just wordplay. The word ‘That’ is of tremendous significance — ‘That’; ‘tat’; ‘tat tvam asi’. ‘Tat’ — ‘That’ — 'That is Bharat.'
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Acharya Prashant: We are here together and this meeting, the togetherness, is the central thing. Today happens to be Ramana Jayanti, an auspicious day. And on any day, what matters is the closeness, the meeting. For name sake, we always have a certain topic to discuss. It’s a kind of entertainment: the name, the topic. How does it matter what we discuss? That we are really talking, is what matters. We could discuss this or we could discuss that. Someday, I might just forget and I would really like to forget the appointed topic for the day.
And just come here and be with you and say anything on any topic or not say anything on any topic. How does saying matter? But anyway, since it's a ritual to speak and speak on an ordered topic. So we shall dutifully follow the order and talk about the topic at hand. What does it happen to be?
Good that you too are forgetting, or you don’t know at all. Knowledge, anyway, is always a burden. Forgetfulness keeps all of us much lighter. May we forget more and more. But I know, in spite of our forgetfulness, we are very vigilant beings. So we remember. So what do we remember about the topic for the day? What is the topic?
