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00:00The man who married a harlot on living dangerously.
00:05The prince of Tirmir said one night to his court jester Dhalkak.
00:15You have taken to wife a harlot in your haste.
00:24You should have mentioned the matter to me.
00:28And then we might have married you to a respectable woman.
00:33So the prince of Tirmir is saying this to the court jester, his name is Dhalkak.
00:40Said the jester, I have already married nine respectable and virtuous women.
00:47They all became harlots and I wasted away with grief.
00:52Now I have taken this harlot, not knowing her previously, so as to see how this word would
00:59turn out in the end.
01:02I have tried good sins often enough already.
01:05Hence, forward, I intend to cultivate madness.
01:18Let safety go and live dangerously.
01:22Forsake good repute, be notorious and a scandal.
01:27I have made trial of provident good sins.
01:30Hereafter, I am going to make myself bad.
01:41He is trying to say that nine of your choices should be enough to cultivate some senses.
02:00Nine instances of your choices going bad should be enough to drill some sense in your mind.
02:15And if you are not, then you are worse than a court jester.
02:17Do you know who a court jester is?
02:18A joker whose only job is to make others laugh.
02:27A court is a serious place where people are tense, heavy matters.
02:32So a court jester is often placed there.
02:35What does he do?
02:36When he sees that the atmosphere is quite tense, he suddenly cracks a joke or he does something
02:43that makes people laugh.
02:50He is a very important person.
02:57He does, in this case at least, what the so-called respectable and serious people won't be able
03:06to do.
03:07And he does that twice.
03:09In the first instance, he does that by marrying nine times.
03:12It is beyond normal human capacity.
03:16People are unable to live through the trauma of even one.
03:31And this one had the guts and the cumption to try nine times over.
03:43He is really a strong fellow.
03:45And that is why the tenth time he seems like succeeding.
03:50He says that those I thought of as virtuous were anyway harlots.
03:59You understand who a harlot is?
04:01You have to go to Kabir to understand who a harlot is.
04:06Kabir repeatedly talks of the Sati.
04:13And at some places he talks of the Vavichayana.
04:17Which he also calls as Beshwaka.
04:22Beshwaka.
04:26The difference between the two is, when a little away from the centre, the Sati is overtaken
04:43by grief.
04:44When a distance between the Sati and the Lord, the Truth, is created.
04:55Then the Sati, the Sati is symbolic of a pentaculate mind.
05:00Then the Sati feels the distance very acutely.
05:10The distance makes her return.
05:13He says, I am feeling that a distance has been created.
05:17I will have to return.
05:19And the Yabhicharini, when she finds that now there is a distance between her and the Truth,
05:29the Lord, then she takes this as an opportunity to go further away.
05:36These are the two types of minds.
05:39These are in fact the only two types of minds possible.
05:42The first kind of mind, when it finds that there is a distance, it gets troubled.
05:54And this trouble makes it seek the centre even more desperately.
06:00I cannot tolerate it that there is a distance.
06:03And the second kind of mind takes the distance as an opportunity.
06:07It says good that there is now some distance.
06:10Now I can escape, run away.
06:15The one who is actually not virtuous at all.
06:27Because Truth is the only virtue.
06:30The harlot is the one who would escape from the Truth to be with something or somebody else.
06:38That is the definition of the harlot or the unvirtuous one in the lexicon of the saints.
06:55If you ask the mystic, who is a prostitute?
06:59He would say the one who loves anything or anybody except the truth.
07:06That is prostitution.
07:12To be attracted towards anything or anybody.
07:16But silence is prostitution.
07:21So the court jester, Velkat, he is saying,
07:30I thought when I married them that they were virtuous women.
07:37But now I have seen in all the nine cases that they were attracted to something besides the truth.
07:50One might be attracted to riches.
07:54One might be attracted to power.
07:57One might be very particular about her pride.
08:01One might be very attracted to her own beauty.
08:05One of them might be very attracted even to Darkak.
08:10And all of that proves that they are not virtuous at all.
08:18So he says, now I don't want to be surprised.
08:31I would simply go ahead and marry a harlot.
08:35At least she has already proven a harlot.
08:37That won't surprise me.
08:38I won't be grieved.
08:47And a harlot, who is known as a harlot, has some potential.
08:57She is at least openly what she is.
09:07I have heard a story.
09:19A man once asked a fakir.
09:22There are so many women in the city.
09:26Can you tell me who is the most pious one?
09:32The fakir pointed to the most infamous and notorious prostitute.
09:45He said, this one is the most pious woman in the city.
09:51That man said, sir, what are you saying?
10:01It is common knowledge that she is a sex worker.
10:06The fakir said, I maintain that she is very pious.
10:10The man said, how?
10:12He said, when she is with somebody, she is only with that person.
10:18Unlike most other women who claim to be with one, but are actually with many.
10:24This one, when she is with somebody, she is only with that person.
10:35Now, of course, the story is just symbolic.
10:41But it tells of how what appears like apparent, superficial virtue might not be virtue at all.
10:53That does not mean that harlots are necessarily more virtuous than ordinary women.
11:02That is not the point of this story.
11:07The point of this story is, what you choose as virtuous will never be virtuous at all.
11:16That does not mean that the tenth time you start choosing harlots.
11:20You do not need to act like a court jester.
11:23It is enough that you see that continuously, nine times, one after the other, you are being made a fool of because you have been too sure of your own choice.
11:44Lao Tzu says, when virtue is called as virtue, rest assured that there is no virtue.
11:51He says, when love is called as love, rest assured there is no love.
11:57He says, whenever a thing becomes apparent, rest assured that the thing is totally absent.
12:03Don't be sure of your choices.
12:24You would be fooled.
12:29I am sure, when this fellow, Dilkar, was unmarried, he wasn't a court jester at all.
12:37He wouldn't have known any jokes.
12:39It is this cycle of marriage after marriage that has taught him so many jokes.
12:45So much so that he became the principal jester in the country.
12:57His sufferings elevated him to the position of the court jester.
13:03When life is a joke, then you can so easily crack jokes.
13:10And nobody knows the joke that life is better than someone who has nine vines or better than someone who has tried nine times.
13:31Someone who has tried.
13:43Either you will get enlightened or you will get some good jokes.
13:48So, I am going to ask people to be able to become the exhibition.
14:10Living dangerously.
14:13No kind of exhibition is there.
14:15It would be like deliberately
14:17Quoting you but deliberately
14:19Trying to take part of the earth
14:21Or not in the earth
14:23But then you are not exhibiting it to anybody
14:27But they are deliberately doing it
14:29You may deliberately do it, yes
14:31But that is
14:33Different from being an exhibitionist
14:39You see this thing called
14:41Consciousness
14:43Conscious choice
14:45Is a great means
14:47What you call as
14:49Done deliberately
14:51Is actually not deliberate
14:53At all
14:55You may deliberately
14:57Want to rush into
14:59A dangerous act
15:01But will your
15:03Deliberation
15:05Give you the courage to rush into that act
15:07What you call as deliberate
15:13Is not deliberate at all
15:15The courage comes first
15:19And then comes the thought
15:21To go into danger
15:23Now what is deliberate then?
15:25Courage was there
15:27Because the courage is there
15:29Hence you are thinking about inviting danger
15:31It is not as if
15:33You thought about
15:35Getting into danger
15:37And therefore you summoned up courage
15:39Wrong!
15:41Unless you have courage
15:43The thought itself won't arise
15:49Please understand the difference
15:51Courage comes first
15:53And then comes the
15:55Thought or the motivation
15:59The guts
16:01To dive into danger
16:03So what is conscious
16:05Or deliberate about that act then?
16:09Sometimes it may happen like this
16:11Sometimes courage may not come first
16:13If desire may come first
16:15If desire may come first
16:17And that desire
16:19That desire is born out of courage
16:21You cannot have that desire
16:23Without
16:25The centre that desire comes from
16:31Desire is a thought
16:33And every thought arises from a particular centre
16:39Sometimes in my life
16:41At least you know I
16:43Suddenly if desire
16:45Be it all
16:47You have suddenly become conscious
16:49Of the desire
16:51No?
16:53A little frog might be sitting next to you
16:55Since a long while
16:57You can become conscious of it
17:01Much later
17:05Courage comes to you
17:07And fills up your heart
17:09And then you start thinking
17:11Thinking of extraordinary things
17:15It is not as if thought is the first thing
17:17The first thing is the heart
17:21It is from the fullness of heart
17:23That great motives arise
17:25So the motives are not deliberate
17:27The motives are a blessing
17:29The heart has first been blessed to be full
17:33And from there the motives have arisen
17:37Never say that the motives were the driving force
17:39The driving force
17:41The driving force
17:43Behind anything real
17:45And significant
17:47Is always beyond oneself
17:49That is when we think
17:59Think and be simple
18:01In that there is not great force
18:03But when there is enough of the strength
18:05You have to do then
18:07There is a very great force
18:09Yes, yes
18:11And when there is that great force
18:13Then the requirement of thought is minimized
18:15Then you require thought only for very little reasons
18:19For very little reasons
18:27It depends on you
18:29The question is not whether that inspiration stays with you
18:31The question is whether you stay with that inspiration
18:39The choice to summon the inspiration is never there
18:43But the choice to rush away from the inspiration is there
18:49That choice is called Maya
18:53You can never summon God to yourself
18:55It is impossible
18:57But the choice to rush away from God is there with you
19:01That choice is Maya
19:03Because that choice is a fake choice
19:05It is not a choice at all
19:07It is not a choice at all
19:09But you feel as if you can really rush away from God
19:11The fish in the ocean
19:15Gets angry with the ocean
19:17And rushes away in great speed
19:21I don't want to talk to you
19:23I am going away
19:25The fish is now angry
19:27The fish is telling the ocean
19:29I am going away
19:31I am going away
19:33And yes it is indeed going away
19:35To great speed
19:37Bearing it still
19:39I won't talk to you
19:43That's how you get away from God
19:45It's Maya
19:47Because you never really actually get away
19:49But in your mind
19:53You indeed have gotten away
19:55And that's what matters
19:57In your mind you are away
19:59No better gift
20:05When the ocean comes to you as a lover
20:09Marry at once
20:11Quickly
20:13For God's sake
20:17Don't postpone it
20:19Existence has no better gift
20:21No amount of searching
20:23No amount of searching will find this
20:25A perfect falcon
20:27A perfect falcon
20:29For no reason
20:30Has landed on your shoulder
20:31And become yours
20:33It tells you of two things
20:35One
20:37How precious the ocean and the falcon are
20:41And the second thing
20:43That is not explicitly mentioned is
20:47How rare the ocean and the falcon are
20:49Rumi is saying
20:51When the ocean comes to you
20:53Marry it quickly
20:55Don't postpone it
20:57Equally he is saying
20:59Be extremely cautious of who has come to you
21:03Because
21:05Given what you are
21:07It would be extremely rare
21:09It would be extremely rare that the ocean comes to you
21:13Given that we live in
21:17Mirror houses
21:19Eco houses
21:21What comes to us
21:23Our own image
21:25Our own voice
21:27The ocean comes only to the ocean
21:29The ocean comes only to the ocean
21:31If you are a little one
21:33Rest assured only the little one would have come to you
21:35So be cautious
21:37Don't marry me
21:45If you are full of waste and filth
21:49No falcon would sit on your shoulder
21:51Yes
21:53Crows and vultures would come
21:59Falcon lands on the shoulders of only the rare one
22:03And that is why Rumi is saying
22:05If
22:07A falcon has landed on your shoulder
22:13Then don't take care
22:15His advice
22:17Is needless
22:18A falcon does not land on everybody's shoulder
22:23It lands only the shoulders of the deserving one
22:27And the deserving one would anyway not ignore the falcon
22:32The ocean anyway does not come to the teacup
22:37The ocean comes only to vastness
22:42And vastness has anyway no reason to reject the ocean
22:46Only vastness is suitable to the ocean
22:48Only vastness is suitable to the ocean
22:51And only ocean is suitable to the ocean
22:53And only ocean is suitable to vastness
22:55What would vastness do with a petty drop?
22:57With a petty drop
23:06The
23:08Thing to be learnt
23:09From this verse is
23:10The thing to be learnt from this verse is
23:14Do not start assuming that little drops are oceans
23:18If you are not sure about who has come to you
23:25Stop looking at the other one and rather look at yourself
23:28If you are stubborn about your littleness
23:35Rest assured the great won't have come to you
23:39If you want to check who has come to you
23:43Check the quality of your own life
23:46Living your little life
23:51It is impossible that you would have opened your gates to the immense one
23:56Living your little life
23:57Living your little life
23:58Living your little life
23:59Living your little life
24:00Only all the little ones will keep being attracted to you
24:03Do not name these little ones as oceans
24:11Rumi is cautioning
24:12You must be very particular about welcoming the ocean
24:22And you must be even more particular about not welcoming the little drops
24:29And you must be even even more particular about not naming the little drops as ocean
24:37That's a great delusion
24:41The mistake that man pays for all his life
24:45All you have is little drops in your life
24:48And you are calling them as
24:50Oh my sweet little oceans
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