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काबिल-ए-तारीफ़ मैं तुम्हें चाहता हूँ || आचार्य प्रशांत (2019)
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Praise
Guru-Disciple Relationship
Responsibility
Humanity
Self-Knowledge
Enlightenment
Honesty
Description

Acharya Prashant states that if his words have any strength, one should apply them to their life, which would fulfill his purpose. Merely chanting praises like "Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu" without application is futile. He cautions that becoming a disciple can be a form of deception, where one shirks responsibility by assuming the Guru will handle everything. He clarifies that the Guru cannot do anything for the disciple in that sense. He shares a couplet he wrote twenty years ago: "Do not sadden me with your praise; I want you to be praiseworthy." He questions the listener's authority to call him great, asking, "Do you know what I am? I know what I am." He points out that if someone can declare him great today, they can just as easily call him a scoundrel tomorrow. He asks how much one truly knows about oneself to be able to know him. He advises against claiming to experience divinity by looking at him, suggesting it is better to find that divinity within oneself by looking in the mirror. The experience derived from looking at him can change overnight, but what one finds by being honest about their own life will be rock-solid and unchanging. He recites more of his poetry to illustrate his points: "You stop me from talking; I want you to be able to talk." and "I have learned very little, my education is incomplete. In this dense jungle, I want humanity." He relates this to an incident in Rishikesh where everyone was seeking enlightenment, and he had a poster made that read, "Forget enlightenment, be human first." He emphasizes that becoming a human being is a great achievement in itself. He further recites, "I cannot become your desire; I want your desires to be prosperous." He urges listeners not to make him, a mere lump of clay like them, their object of desire, but to desire that which will make them prosperous. He concludes with the verse, "Bind my life in circles; I just want one circle of my own," explaining that this circle is his work, a desire to do something good beyond the usual play of the body and its tendencies. He encourages everyone to live a powerful, simple, and free life, as that is what truly matters.