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महत्वपूर्ण है वो टलता रहा, व्यर्थ से जीवन भरता रहा || आचार्य प्रशांत, संत रूमी पर (2015)
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Rumi
Procrastination
Present Moment
Self-deception
Future
Life and Death
Truth
Peace
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Acharya Prashant explains a quote by Rumi: "They say, ‘Is there play after eighty?’ I say, ‘Is there play before eighty?’" He clarifies that the question of what happens after a certain age, symbolized by eighty, or after life itself, is a common one. Rumi, however, turns this question around to focus on the present. The more important question is not what will happen after life, but what is happening right now. People who are worried about the future are often those whose present is not right; they are not living fully and their present is uprooted. The speaker points out that those who are not living rightly today are the ones most concerned about tomorrow. This worry about the future is a way to avoid the present. People postpone auspicious actions, making tomorrow seem more important than today, which is a form of self-deception. The call of Truth is always in the present moment. Those who want to listen, listen now; those who don't, postpone it. This postponement is described as an internal fraud, as tomorrow never truly comes. By saying you'll do something tomorrow, you are essentially ensuring it never gets done. He connects this habit of procrastination to a life of restlessness and fatigue. By placing conditions on peace—saying "I will be peaceful when..."—one chooses restlessness now. Peace is postponed to a future that never arrives. The speaker concludes that if you truly wanted something, you would not postpone it. The very act of postponement proves you don't really want it. You get what you choose, and if you choose restlessness now, that is what you will have.