00:00When saints talk of this longing in many of their poems and writings, they seem to have
00:09surpassed these rational boundaries or the limits of this material body.
00:17Like Jyoti ji has quoted a verse of Kabir Sahib where he says,
00:21The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it.
00:27The moon is within me and so is the sun.
00:31So she is asking, Acharya ji, what is this moon and what is this sun that the Kabir Sahib
00:39is referring to?
00:47Not only are the moon and the sun within the observer, the entire universe is also in the
00:57observer.
00:59Even the observer is in the observer.
01:07Not one moon, not one sun, millions of moons and billions of suns.
01:11The first half an hour today, Yoti, the subject is the object.
01:34There is nothing outside of you that is not a function of who you are.
01:50Man does not see moon.
02:00Man is moon, moon is man.
02:05It's a man-moon system.
02:07It's a man-moon system in which the moon appears to be throwing light on the man and the man appears
02:19to be watching the moon.
02:22It's a man-moon system in which the moon appears to be using the moon.
02:43It's a man-universe system, there is man and he is rejecting the entire universe, no not
03:04willfully, not consciously, just by the virtue of him being a man.
03:14He is projecting everything, all is here, all is here, all is here.
03:31And yet I am unable to understand this, I am unable to know anything because I know through
03:42the brain and because I look through the eyes.
03:48I am the ego enmeshed with the universe.
03:53When I am really the witness of the universe and the ego is such a dependent entity, it
04:06has eyes of flesh to look with and it has a brain of flesh to comprehend with.
04:16Obviously, it neither sees anything nor understands anything.
04:27That's how the ego fails.
04:30Its instruments are limited.
04:37The ego is a drunken soldier fighting with substandard weapons.
04:48Will he win?
04:49Will he win?
04:53Why is it amazing then that this soldier is always found beaten and complaining?
05:07He is drunken because he is fighting against himself.
05:10His weapons are substandard because he is using the senses.
05:33All he needs is a wonderful gun that shoots at the shooter.
05:59You know, there was this movie that I saw, it was a comic flick.
06:20So there are these two rascals in that, the villains.
06:37And they are trying to bring down the two heroes.
06:44And the heroes are always one-up somehow managing to foil the evil plot of the villains.
06:56Finally, the elder villain manages to get a secret weapon.
07:06And these two heroes are frolicking with the heroines in some park.
07:14And the two rascals come sneaking from behind the trees.
07:24And they both are immaculately dressed in white from top till bottom.
07:33And the elder villain hands over a special gun to the younger one.
07:38And he says, use this, this will definitely kill both of them, rather all four of them.
07:44The younger one asks, this thing, this gun looks very odd.
07:53What is it?
07:54The elder one says, yeh vasko digama ki banduk hai.
08:00The younger one says, kis ke mama ki banduk hai?
08:08He says, vasko digama ki banduk hai.
08:13You just shoot.
08:19And the younger pager shoots.
08:25And in the next frame, the two are wearing black.
08:42The black that is torn and exposing their intimate body parts that too have gone black.
09:06We all need vasko digama ki banduk.
09:12Because willingly we will never shoot at ourselves.
09:21We need a gun that deceives us.
09:29It's meant to fire at this and that.
09:36But it fires rather at us.
09:46In the same frame, there's another quote quoted by Parmeshwari ji of Kabir saham.
09:55It says, within the supreme realm, the worlds are being told like beads.
10:04Look upon the rosary with the eyes of wisdom.
10:10So she is saying, krishan too told that I am the string that beholds the beads together
10:19in Bhagavad Gita.
10:22What is this rosary that Kabir sahab is referring to?
10:27How to look with the eyes of wisdom?
10:31Why does it sit still here?
10:35Why does it sit still here?
10:37Why doesn't it just topple over this way, that way, any which way?
10:48You will say, oh, this is a law of prakriti.
10:53Why does prakriti stick to her laws?
10:59Don't be so habituated to just seeing things this way.
11:05Why is this fly walking the way she is?
11:14Why do you think man must exist the way he does?
11:19You are just habituated to looking at man the way he exists.
11:26Otherwise it is so very odd, you know.
11:32Neither circular nor rectangular.
11:40These things like protrusions in an octopus body.
11:51Do you think the monkeys consider us handsome?
12:05But when you look at human beings, you feel as if that's what humanity is like.
12:19That's what is normal.
12:24The other day I asked you, where must you be found?
12:38And why are you found where you are?
12:45And I was told that you said it's a dangerous question to ask.
12:54If it's dangerous to ask, where you must be found?
13:00It must be super dangerous to ask whether you should be found at all.
13:07What are these eyes and why do they keep blinking?
13:13Why do you wake up every morning?
13:14What is this thing called morning at all?
13:20Why is the earth going round and round, circling some random star?
13:37What are these men and women doing together?
13:39What is this?
13:48What are kids?
13:52What is death?
13:57What are these men doing today?
14:10Why do you hear fall?
14:13You will come.
14:43To no answer to these questions or rather you have come to a common answer to these questions. What's the common answer? I don't know, I cannot know. That's the string through the pearls.
15:13The more you go into an issue, the more you see that you cannot know.
15:25When Krishna says, I am the thread in the middle of the pearls, that's what he means. I am the common binding element.
15:41And what is the common answer to any deep inquiry? I cannot know.
15:51Alternatively, you could say the common answer is, it depends on me. It's my perception.
16:03What is certain is, you will not have diverse answers.
16:13Whenever an inquiry digs deep enough, it will come to a point that several other inquiries coming from several other directions have reached.
16:28It's a shared center. That shared center is called Krishna.
16:35Why must you be curious?
16:41And if you say, you are not getting me, why must you clamor to get me?
16:48What is this thing called listening?
17:04What do you hope to get by listening?
17:13Obviously, you can give some answer.
17:16But that's like the mud that gets thrown up in the process of digging.
17:24None of these answers are deep enough.
17:32The mud is not deep enough, that's why it gets shoveled out.
17:36Does it not?
17:43You could satisfy or entertain yourself with superficial inquiry, as most people do.
18:02That's one option.
18:04Or you could go deep down and see that man is incapable of inquiring.
18:17As long as man retains his man-ness, his inquiry will remain incomplete.
18:23Inquiry comes to its conclusion with the dissolution of the inquirer.
18:49That is the common thread.
18:59That is the rosary that Kabir sahab is referring to.
19:04Apparently, many, many different things like the many, many different beads.
19:16Many pearls, many stones.
19:19And when you look at it from a distance, all that you see is the different pearls and stones and the beads.
19:33Right?
19:34But if you are not particularly dim-witted, you would want to ask what keeps them together.
19:40And you won't get to know from the outside because the thread runs through the center.
19:51You will have to go very close, very close.
19:57You will have to go right till the center.
20:06There is Kabir's Hari, Kabir's Ram, or Gita's Krishna.
20:22But you look at me this way.
20:39All kinds of stones are there.
20:49But not many threads are there.
20:52Hmm?
20:54At the center of every issue that the mind can come up with,
21:14is Ram.
21:29The core matter of all your matters is Ram.
21:37That's why all your matters are only outwardly different.
21:42Inwardly, all matters pertain to just the one matter.
22:00It's like different patients rushing to the hospital or found within the hospital.
22:07The names of their diseases are very, very different.
22:13But that which they are seeking is exactly the same.
22:22If you look at their reports or their diagnoses, they will be remarkably different.
22:29Right?
22:30But that which they are after is one.
22:41The world is a colossal hospital pernishwari.
22:46All are diseased.
22:47And the diseases are diverse and different.
22:55What you want and what you do not want, even that is one.
23:23At the center of all your attractions and at the center of all your repulsions is the same matter.
