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How does the face of God look? || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2017)
Scriptures and Saints
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Kabir Saheb
God
Truth
Stillness
Atma
Liberation
Temple
Shri Krishna
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Acharya Prashant interprets Kabir Saheb's imagery of God as a cage and the individual as a parrot. He explains that while a cage is typically associated with slavery, in this spiritual context, it represents a foolproof container that completely envelopes the individual. Just as a bird flying from a small metallic cage into the sky has simply entered a larger, inescapable cage, the sky represents the vast, unforgiving space of Truth or God. This 'sky-ness' is our true nature, characterized by a stillness that envelopes all activity without being disturbed by it. True stillness is not the opposite of activity or a cultivated physical posture, but a vastness that remains untouched by the movements of life.