00:00Kabira Badal Prem Ka Ampar Barsiya Hai Antar Bheegi Aatma Hari Bhai Banarai
00:24Says Kabir, Love clouds have gathered. It is raining down on me. My entire soul is soaked in it. All round there is greenery.
00:34The question goes as follows.
00:37Dear Acharyaji Pranam. Is the greenery mentioned in the above Doha something beyond peace?
00:47I feel as if every cell of Kabirji was pulsating with the divine love.
00:53When he says love clouds have gathered raining down on me. Could you please elaborate what is he pointing to?
01:01Deep gratitude and love.
01:06Just sing what Kabir Sahab is saying. Just sing.
01:13I may keep trying for two hours. I will just not be able to go beyond Kabir Sahab.
01:24What he has said in these two lines, I won't be able to say in two hours.
01:32So do not try to understand him through me. Understand him through him.
01:38Just sing. It's anyway so lucid and self-explanatory. Is it not?
01:44Kabir Badal Prem Ka Ampar Barsiya Hai.
01:50Antar Bheegi Aatma Hari Bhai Banarai.
01:57Without love there is merely dryness.
02:04Without love there is merely logic.
02:12Anybody from computer engineering background here?
02:23Machines work on logic, especially computing machines.
02:31And the thing with man is that at least half part of his brain works on logic.
02:38Thankfully only half.
02:44Without love there is just logic and it's extremely dry.
02:55The two hemispheres of man's brain are a good pointer.
03:03Of course nature didn't deliberately evolve them so that they may suit my example this night.
03:16Still they lend themselves very beautifully to point at a great revelation.
03:38Man cannot live by logic alone.
03:41Man cannot live by arguments alone.
03:51In fact, not only are both important.
03:57If one of the two has to be chosen, it would be the one that is the more fundamental of the two.
04:08And of the two, love is more fundamental.
04:18Why is love more fundamental?
04:20Because when you say that there is the yearning of the mind for the truth called love.
04:37And then there is the resistance to it, which is just the bodily tendencies called vritti and prakriti.
04:49Then you have to remember that not only is the yearning of the mind towards love.
05:00Even the resistance of prakriti to love is love.
05:12Please get this.
05:17Now that sounds paradoxical.
05:20We are saying that we are usually split in two.
05:25One part that unreasonably wants to merge into something greater, wants to relax into sleep.
05:39And then there is the other logical part that wants continuation, that wants security.
05:48What I'm saying is the unreasonable part is surely pulsating with love.
05:55But even the reasonable part, even the logical part is driven by nothing but love, though indirect.
06:03Even when you resist love, it is because of love, just the resisting love is misguided.
06:16Love is more fundamental.
06:20You rush towards dissolution.
06:32There are moments in your life.
06:35There are special incidents.
06:41When you just want to sacrifice everything for something holy, something very lovely, something very precious.
06:50And then there is the usual instinct of self-preservation.
06:57The instinct towards self-preservation says, hold on, don't die, don't dissolve, don't give up, don't surrender, just continue.
07:15You must ask, why does even the instinct for self-preservation exist?
07:23Why do you want to continue?
07:25You want to continue in time so that at the end of time you might meet your beloved.
07:39There is that within you which says, I want to jump out of the stream of time right now.
07:47I want that the inner clock stops right now.
07:52And then there is that in you which is very logical, which says, be a little considerate, use the intellect, create a better future.
08:08Tomorrow you will get that which you so desperately want.
08:19So even the logical part is looking for nothing but the same thing that the so-called illogical part is wanting.
08:30Both want the same thing.
08:33One wants it right now, the other wants it in the future.
08:39So obviously both are driven by love.
08:44One is driven by crazy love, the other is driven by love tempered with, mollified by logic.
08:59Our life is nothing but an interplay of these two instincts.
09:07These two instincts have sometimes been called as Yin and Yang, sometimes Purush and Prakriti, sometimes Apollonian and Dionysian.
09:19But these two, thesis, antithesis, they keep shaping our life.
09:29Are you getting it?
09:34Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsa Hai.
09:39Antar Bheegi Aatma Hari Bhai Banarai.
09:44There was such dryness.
09:49And now sap is running through the veins of trees.
09:54There is greenery.
09:59Something within has just been showered with ambrosia.
10:10I see a juicy fruit appearing.
10:22I see blood running now through the veins.
10:33Are you getting it?
10:40Kabir Sahab is first and foremost a poet of love.
10:49But that's such a stupid thing to say.
10:53Because you cannot be a poet of understanding.
10:59All poetry is just love.
11:05And therefore all great saints have been poets irrespective of whether they wrote in prose or verse.
11:31You don't make it happen.
11:43It rains upon you.
11:45You cannot compel or guide or instruct a cloud to bless you with showers.
11:58Or can you?
12:00All that you can do is not run indoors when it rains.
12:13Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsa Hai.
12:18Do hear what Kabir Sahab is lovingly silent about.
12:28When the cloud comes, he remains available to be drenched in the rain.
12:42Otherwise we all have umbrellas.
12:50And as technology evolves, we'll have even better means to avoid getting wet.
13:03I didn't cause the cloud to come.
13:06It just happened with me.
13:08Who is the one who is doing this to me?
13:11What does he want?
13:13Or does he even want anything?
13:15Maybe he's just responding to my want.
13:34It rained upon me.
13:39And the entire world appears green now.
13:42What's going on?
13:48Did Kabir Sahab say that the cloud of love rained upon the entire world?
14:00Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsa Hai.
14:07Or did he say Jag Par Barsa Hai?
14:12Where did it rain?
14:15It rained upon him.
14:20It's strange.
14:22And what has turned green?
14:25The world has turned green.
14:28It's raining here.
14:32And the greenery is sprouting there.
14:36What nonsense?
14:39Oh, just love.
14:44Nonsense is unnecessarily too long a word.
14:50Eight characters.
14:52Cut that by half.
14:54Instead of saying nonsense, say love.
14:59Four units are sufficient.
15:03And in Kabir's language, it is not even four, it is dhai.
15:15Something has happened to you and the world has changed.
15:21Something has happened to you and the world has changed.
15:27Now that you are in love, you cannot look at the world in the same way as you used to look at it.
15:48This again contains a lot of revelations in its own simple understated way.
16:02Usually our love is about one special thing or person.
16:16So even if you say that you see greenery somewhere, that greenery is commonly just a man or woman in green.
16:30So you are in love and she is your Hari Ali.
16:34That's how you colloquially put it in Hindi, don't you?
16:41But Kabir Sahib is saying Hari bhai ban rai.
16:48The entire jungle has turned green.
16:51I see greenery not merely in one tree, but in the entire.
16:56That's the difference between common love and Kabir's love.
17:02In your love, there is just one green tree.
17:07In Kabir's love, the entire world has turned green.
17:17There is nothing dry anywhere anymore.
17:28What does that mean?
17:34Love is a great, great pain.
17:41Listen to this carefully.
17:43Love is a great pain.
17:48It is not without reason that Kabir Sahib is saying that Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsai.
17:55Do you know why he is using the trope of cloud and water and rain?
18:15Because love burns, love hurts.
18:28Love is nothing but the realization of separation.
18:39In Kabir's love, because you become very, very sensitive to your own yearning for the truth,
18:58you also start seeing how everything in the universe is desperately wanting just that same beloved as you are.
19:24You hardly see a difference between yourself and others.
19:36Listen carefully.
19:39What is the difference between you and you?
19:47How do you say we are different?
19:53If the two of you have exactly the same identical desires, would you still say we two are different?
20:08Difference implies difference in desires.
20:15And the difference in desires is so easily visible.
20:22It is right there to see, undeniable.
20:26You want something that he does not want.
20:29And he wants something that only he wants.
20:34He wants to go back to a particular house that is only his.
20:39You will get up and look for a pair of slippers that belong only to you.
20:49When you want to drink water, you want to drink it for yourself, don't you?
20:58You are thirsty.
21:00Water is your particular personal desire.
21:06Love is when you start seeing the deep desire beneath all your superficial desires.
21:16Love is when you start seeing what you are really, really thirsty for.
21:28Superficially, the desires of different people are different.
21:31Deeply, we all share one desire.
21:38So, what is it that happens in love?
21:40In love, two things are happening simultaneously.
21:46One, you have come in contact with your deep self that wants union with the beloved.
21:56Secondly, you have seen that this is what all want.
22:07There is nobody who does not want deeply the same thing as I do.
22:14Superficially, he wants black and he wants white.
22:18Deeply, both of them want only satisfaction.
22:24Now the world is not full of strangers.
22:29When there are just strangers, there is dryness or is there not?
22:36If you are with a group of strangers, is it a very juicy situation?
22:48But when you are with people you call as your own, then juice flows freely or does it not?
22:58A college reunion and beer flows freely.
23:04I am with people who are my own.
23:10The true lover starts seeing that everybody is exactly like himself.
23:24So, not only are all these people my own, they are me.
23:31Not only are they not strangers, they are not even my own, they are identical with me.
23:44And if they are identical with me, how can there be any dryness?
23:48You are not only my brother, you are me.
23:55Forget about being a stranger, you are not even my brother.
24:00You are not even my mirror image, you are me.
24:05Those eyes are searching for just the same thing as these eyes.
24:12There is nothing else that anybody's eyes are looking for.
24:18It doesn't matter what the object of our perception is, we are searching for the same thing.
24:26Now are you with aliens?
24:33Now are you with foreigners?
24:38You are not even with family, you are with yourself.
24:45That's love.
24:48So, I said love means two things.
24:50Love firstly means total dedication towards the beloved.
24:55And secondly, total identification with the world.
25:03But first of all, you need total dis-identification with the world.
25:12Because unless you are totally dis-identified with the world, how will you identify with him?
25:23And that is why you know why saints have so much compassion for the world.
25:32Now can you relate these two things?
25:35Saints have great love for him.
25:39Saints have great love for him.
25:42And saints' principal concern is with the truth.
25:47What is a saint principally concerned with, the world or the truth?
25:51Truth.
25:53But at the same time, we have seen saints lay down their lives for the sake of the world.
26:00We are into Christmas now.
26:03If Jesus is the son of God and Jesus loves God much more than anything or anybody else,
26:12what is Jesus doing among men and women of this world?
26:17What is the primary concern of Jesus?
26:23The love of God.
26:30That's what he principally wants, right?
26:33Does Jesus say I am the son of this world?
26:36He says no.
26:39Even my mortal mother is a virgin.
26:41How can I be a son of this world?
26:46I belong to my father.
26:47And if Jesus belongs to his father, why is he so laboriously,
26:51why is he so painstakingly working for the people of this world?
26:56That's the thing about love.
27:00These are the twin features of love.
27:05Because you love him so much, therefore you also see that all love him equally.
27:13It's just that they are a bit deluded.
27:20In spite of loving him so much, they do not know how deeply they love him.
27:30So their love becomes misdirected.
27:34It's a stream that should be flowing towards the ocean.
27:38And instead it starts getting lost in sands and quagmires and various places.
27:49And therefore the saint works tirelessly for the world.
27:54Because he knows that you are me.
27:57Therefore by working for you, I am actually working for myself.
28:06Antarbhigi Atma Hari Bhai Ban Raha Hai.
28:13Me, me everywhere.
28:15I am with my own people.
28:17It feels great.
28:19And therefore it also implies that I cannot go to him alone.
28:24Because if you are me, how can I go there alone?
28:27I'll have to take you along.
28:30And now that explains why a saint keeps singing for the world all his life.
28:37Because he knows fully well that he cannot go there alone.
28:44He is me and he is me and he is me.
28:47How will I take the flight alone?
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