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खाली करो, खाली करो || आचार्य प्रशांत, युवाओं के संग, संत रूमी पर (2015)
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Rumi
Emptiness
Good and Bad
Truth
Lao Tzu
Kabir Saheb
Ego
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Acharya Prashant begins by quoting Rumi, stating, "Anyone can bring me gifts, give me someone who can take away." He explains that while anyone can give him things, he needs someone who can empty him. He has received many gifts from the world, often given with the intention of doing good. A gift is something given for someone's benefit. Most people who gave him things did so for his well-being, and he accepted them for his betterment. He then introduces a revolutionary redefinition of good and bad from Rumi's perspective. The common notion is to accept the good and reject the bad from what one receives from the outside. However, Rumi suggests that whatever comes from the outside is, in itself, the problem. The new definition of evil is anything that comes from the outside, even if presented as love, education, morality, or intelligence. If it is given to you, it cannot be truly important; it is not only unimportant but also poisonous. The world has filled him up, and now he needs someone to empty him, to take things away. This process of emptying is what he calls goodness. Acharya Prashant connects this to the teachings of Lao Tzu, who said that when the real is absent, one fills oneself with thousands of alternatives like fake images, hollow words, traditions, and verses. The more one is filled with these external things, the farther one moves from the truth. Rumi's prayer is to be emptied of words so that only truth remains. Similarly, when love is absent, one has many imaginations and desires for it. Rumi's prayer is to remove all these so that love can enter, to remove all excitement to experience quiet joy. He further clarifies that a true well-wisher is not someone who gives you more things, nor someone who replaces one thing with another. A true well-wisher is one who shows you the futility of all that you have unnecessarily filled yourself with, which has become a burden on your head, causing tension and confusion. He addresses the fear of what will remain if one is emptied of desires and entanglements. He encourages making this a question to be explored with faith that something will indeed remain. The speaker concludes by explaining that whatever can be let go of is external. The real you cannot be shed. The touchstone is to see what you can let go of and still feel lighter; that which is left is not you.