00:00Question is from Nishant Raj ji. He is saying, Acharya ji, I have been listening to Sufi
00:07and Bhakti poetry and despite being intellectuals and scholars, e.g. Kabir Sahab and Khushro,
00:13they put emphasis on affection, then smartness, cunningness and intellect. Is that because
00:18generally intellectuals are considered detached and to explore the opposite, they now are
00:23putting more emphasis to affection? No, no, not at all. In fact, intellect and attachment
00:35and the normal kind of affection, they go together. You know what is the dictionary
00:42meaning of affection? You will be surprised. What is affection? Just check. The pure meaning.
00:53The common meaning is affection means love, sneh. Figure it out and let me know.
01:05Intellect can be very, very attached. In fact, intellect will be attached.
01:22So, it is not as if intellect and affection are opposite of each other. No.
01:31If you want to understand the words that belong to these two dimensions, you will have to consider
01:40the respective sets. What goes with intellect? Attachment, ego, exploitation, the usual kind of
01:55emotional relationship. What goes with intelligence? Love. So, it is not as if love is the opposite of intellect.
02:13Real love comes with intelligence. With intellect, you do have love, the false kind of love.
02:26My hunch is that when you say affection, you are referring to this very false kind of love.
02:31That does not go against intellect. That goes with intellect.
02:38The false kind of love accompanies the intellect very smoothly.
02:47The common notion is, if you are an intellectual, then you are dry and if you are not an intellectual, then you are wet.
02:56Whatever that means. Not true. The plane of intellect is the plane of duality.
03:07You are dry one moment just to be drenched the next.
03:13They are not opposites. They belong to the same plane.
03:20The one that you see as very dry in the office will be very wet the moment he reaches home.
03:27In fact, all the hours of dryness will make him even more eager to get wet.
03:37These two go hand in hand. They are not things of different dimensions.
03:47They belong to the same plane. Kindly do not see differences where there are none.
03:55Intellect and affection go hand in hand. Intellect and the common kind of love, they go hand in hand.
04:01Because they both belong to the ego.
04:06They both belong to the ego. So, they go hand in hand.
04:11What does not go with intellect is real love, not affection.
04:16Real love comes with intelligence. That's a different plane.
04:21So, in your normal life, in your normal observation, experience,
04:31you have, as you say, dry people and wet people. They are one and the same.
04:38No difference at all.
04:43The one who is very wet for his family members, let's say, will be very dry towards the rest of the world.
04:48Is that not so?
04:53And the one who is dry is dry only because his wet ambitions could not be fulfilled.
05:00So, now he is frustrated against life and acting very dry.
05:07But the more dry he acts, the more he is proving that he is desperate to get wet.
05:12And that's why he is acting so dry. In fact, he is communicating it to the entire universe.
05:17I am unhappy. That's why I am dry.
05:22And I will continue to act dry till you fulfill my desires.
05:27And the day something rains on him, all his dryness is gone.
05:32In fact, his dryness is just to attract the rains.
05:37It's a very tested, proven script.
05:42Act extremely dry and then there will be an opportunity to get wet.
05:47Act extremely pricey. Chances are you will be picked.
05:59Act very reluctant.
06:09I don't want anything from you.
06:16Chances are you will be paid and also laid.
06:21Just act reluctant.
06:26I don't want.
06:31These dualities, they all belong to the same plane.
06:36The fool and the saint, they do not belong to the same plane.
06:44In your question, you named a few saints and you said they display affection.
06:49Is affection then the opposite of intellect? No, no, no.
06:54The saints don't display affection at all. Affection means actually disease.
06:59Affection means disease.
07:04The saints have no affection. The saints have love and love has nothing to do with affection.
07:09Affection and affliction go together.
07:19It is not affection that characterizes a saint. It is love that characterizes him.
07:24Affection and dryness, they go together.
07:29Always.
07:34And affection and love, they never go together.
07:39So you have to be very clear about what accompanies what.
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