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The Perfect One for marriage || Acharya Prashant, on Rumi (2017)
Scriptures and Saints
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Truth
Virtue
Maya
Heart
Courage
Silence
Kabir Saheb
Rumi
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the conflict faced by Arjun in the Bhagavad Gita is not a personal struggle but a representation of the universal human condition. He emphasizes that Shri Krishna and Arjun are both internal entities, where Shri Krishna represents the heart or the core of one's being. Using a story from Rumi about a court jester who marries a harlot after nine failed marriages with 'virtuous' women, he illustrates that what the world considers virtuous is often a facade. In the lexicon of saints, a 'harlot' is anyone who is attracted to anything other than the ultimate truth, while true virtue is synonymous with truth and silence alone.