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Go really mad don't just pretend || Acharya Prashant on Saint Rumi (2016)
Scriptures and Saints
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Liberation
Truth
Consciousness
Holy Anarchy
Divine Order
Society
Insomnia
Shri Krishna
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Acharya Prashant explains that the situation of Arjun represents the conflict of all mankind, where Shri Krishna is not a separate person but the heart within. He defines insomnia as a breaking down of the regular patterns of consciousness and the mind, which the world often labels as madness. While society expects a liberated person to be poised and elegant, the speaker suggests that the liberated one lives in a holy anarchy, following a divine inner order rather than external social codes or conventions. This individual has stopped following all orders, including their own, and their actions may appear as utter disorder to others because truth is not a public or social commodity. He further notes that one cannot attain the essence of figures like Mira or Mahavir by simply copying their external actions, such as dancing or nakedness, as these are merely outcomes of their internal state. He warns that if one fits perfectly into the mainstream and follows all social benchmarks, they are part of a collective destruction. The speaker emphasizes that the universe is a self-sufficient divine machine that provides everything necessary for survival, such as the correct proportions of oxygen and sunlight, without human volition. Therefore, a person is redundant in their own upkeep and should relax, trusting that the system functions perfectly without their desperate intervention.