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शाश्वत उन्मत्तता प्रेम की || आचार्य प्रशांत, संत रूमी पर (2013)
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Love
Rumi
Intoxication
Disappearance
Life
Eternity
Knowing
Sacrifice
Description

Acharya Prashant explains the verses of Rumi. He states that in love, nothing is eternal except for the intoxication of the beloved. Everything else, including external situations and circumstances, is transient and subject to change. Life is a continuous movement, a flux, in which nothing is permanent. However, when there is an inner light or a state of knowing, a deep intoxication and bliss persist internally, regardless of what is happening externally. This inner state is what is meant by love, life, and knowing. The speaker clarifies the meaning of sacrifice and disappearance in the context of love. To bring one's life to the beloved is to offer it as a sacrifice. The desire to know the beloved and then disappear is not a wish for physical death but for the annihilation of the ego. He emphasizes that knowing the beloved does not mean to literally die or to become anti-life. It is not about getting cut off from the world or becoming defeated by it. Instead, it is the beginning of true living. Acharya Prashant elaborates that this disappearance is the death of only that which is false and was destined to perish anyway. Love is like a fire that burns away the garbage—the past, conditioning, beliefs, and burdens of the mind. When this falseness is incinerated, what is real and pure remains. This is not an end but a new beginning. Love is life itself. When the inner state is one of love, all external actions become auspicious. This inner state of love is an eternal intoxication, a continuous stream that is never broken. Love is an inner weather, an internal state, and should not be confined to any external image, personality, or set of actions. When the inner weather is of love, one's role-playing in the world takes on a new quality. You walk on the same ground, but your steps are different; you talk to the same people, but your words have a new meaning. Love is not about escaping life but about living it more fully, authentically, and with a deep, unwavering inner joy.