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Enjoy your displeasure || Acharya Prashant, on Rumi (2017)
Acharya Prashant
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Rumi
Surrender
Self-preservation
Dissolution
Karma
Suffering
Safety
Spiritual Transition
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses a question from a seeker in the Netherlands regarding Rumi's concept of transitioning from being a hunter to being the hunted. He observes that the very act of asking how to be hunted demonstrates that the transition is already underway. The seeker's willingness to disappear or 'die' to their current self is evident in their pursuit of this spiritual inquiry. He explains that while the mind seeks a method or an academic answer for surrender, the eagerness to surrender is itself the process. The seeker's discovery of his teachings is not merely a result of circumstances or technology but a deeper, ancient movement of the self looking for something beyond its own dimension.