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हुस्न-ए-हक़ीक़ी, नूर-ए-अज़ल || आचार्य प्रशांत, ख्वाज़ा गुलाम फ़रीद पर (2013)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Formless and Form
Truth
Guru
Ego
Surrender
Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Swami Vivekananda
Worldly Existence
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the Formless can only be perceived through form. Referring to a song that lists everything from deities and scriptures to everyday objects like tables and swords, he notes that the speaker has included every humanly possible trait and quality. He asserts that the Colorless cannot be known without seeing color, and the Master cannot be recognized without a physical presence. To know the Truth, one must see it in everything that exists—be it a laptop, a piece of paper, or a human body. He warns that seeking a distant, formless God while ignoring the immediate world is a form of self-deception. He recounts the interaction between Swami Vivekananda and Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, where the latter pointed to the immediate presence to show that God is visible right here. Acharya Prashant defines a Guru as the moment one starts seeing the Formless within a form. He emphasizes that if one does not see the Supreme in a rickshaw puller or the soil, one has not truly known anything. He criticizes the ego for making people comfortable bowing to machines while refusing to bow to other humans. True surrender, or 'Naman,' should be spontaneous, but people often plan it or use gifts as substitutes to protect their ego. He concludes that by suppressing spontaneous love and surrender, people live in a state of internal tension.