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Free from lovers, you become free to love || Acharya Prashant, on Rumi (2015)
Scriptures and Saints
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Love
Rumi
Truth
Being
Disappointment
Obstacles
Cleverness
Fear
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that love is the very essence of one's being and the primary motivator behind every human action, breath, and thought. He describes this as an ancient, primordial call that exists from the moment a person comes into being. However, people often live in a state of disappointment because they mistakenly attribute this call to external objects, persons, or bodies. Using the poetry of Rumi, he clarifies that the true lover is not an entity or a person, but a state within one's own heart. He emphasizes that as long as one is obsessed with finding a physical lover, they will never find true love, as love is independent of external lovers and is a quality of the mind.