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What does it mean to remember God, and be lost? || Acharya Prashant, on Rumi (2017)
Scriptures and Saints
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Remembrance
Ego
Silence
Duality
Prayer
Consciousness
Rumi
Kabir Saheb
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that human remembrance and calling are typically self-centered. When we remember food, water, or even God, we are primarily remembering our own hunger, thirst, or distress. This form of remembrance is not true remembrance because it remains confined within the narrow limits of the ego. We often use others, including the divine, as servants to fulfill our personal needs, which is an exploitative and loveless approach. He emphasizes that as long as there is a 'caller' who has a reason or purpose, the call is false and merely an echo of one's own self. True remembrance, as suggested by Rumi, requires the disappearance of both the caller and the called, leading to a state where one is lost in the call itself. Acharya Prashant further clarifies that being 'lost in the call' is not the same as being 'aware' in the sense of a being who claims awareness. Such awareness is often just another thought or a state of consciousness within the trap of duality. He uses the metaphors of light without a sun and sound without impact to describe a state beyond reasons and the self. True silence is not the absence of external noise or a state that can be packaged and sold; it is a dimension beyond words and concepts. He concludes that real prayer is silence, where one stops seeking help from their own limited self and opens up to the beyond, which is reasonless and complete.