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How does the face of God look? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2017)
Scriptures and Saints
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Bhagavad Gita
Kabir Saheb
God
Stillness
Atma
Temple
Liberation
Truth
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Acharya Prashant clarifies that the Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical document of the highest order rather than a mere story. He addresses a verse by Kabir Saheb that describes God as a cage and the individual as a parrot within it. He explains that this imagery, while initially shocking, represents God as a foolproof container or an all-encompassing space, much like the sky. Just as a bird flying out of a small cage is still contained within the vast sky, the individual is always within the truth. This 'skyness' represents our true nature—a stillness that envelopes all activity without being disturbed by it. He warns against cultivated or fake stillness, which is merely physical control, and emphasizes that true stillness is a vastness untouched by movement.