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That which you desperately seek is made distant by your seeking || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Rumi
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Bhagavad Gita
Ego
Truth
Liberation
Samadhi
Moksha
Surrender
Seeking
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Acharya Prashant emphasizes that the Bhagavad Gita is a philosophical document of the highest order rather than a mere story. He challenges the conventional notion of the seeker as a 'lover' and the truth as a 'beloved' located at a distance. He explains that the very act of seeking establishes a premise of separation and incompletion. By identifying as a seeker who is 'not yet there', the individual reinforces the ego, which thrives on distance and effort. In the dimension of truth, one is either already there or not there at all; it is impossible to 'reach' it through gradual effort because the center of such effort is the ego itself.