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Dhai Akshar Prem ke
Its all about Love.
Kabir was no scholar, yet he expressed the very essence of life."Love's not grown in gardens,Love's not sold at market.He who wants it,king or commoner,gives his head and takes it, There is only one way to obtain love, the man who wants love gives his head . He will have to sacrifice his ego,his pretence,his false show. That is what kabir means by "head". There are two diemnsions to this.One aspect is that your ego-that is contained in the head-must disapper.Love means the transformation of the centre.An egoist considers himself to be the centre .He says" I must be saved even at the cost of the whole world".The ego is aggressive , so when the egoist shows his love for someonehe destroys him;he tries to destroy the other 's individuality .IN this kind of false love countless people have lost their individuality .
The second meaning is , losing your thoughts .Your mind is nothing but a vast collection of thoughts . Your mind is nothing but a vast crowdindeed.Because of it your whole energy is wasted and you have no energy left for love . The head is an exploiter .It drains you to such an extent that the flow of energy is unable to reach your heart . And 99 percent of your thoughts are useless, they have no substance.
When you are sitting quietly , do you ever observe your thoughts? Have you ever wattched the rubbish that goes on in your mind ?What do you hope to achieve by permitting all this rubbish? It goes on, day and night, in your waking hours and in your dreams. Even the most trivial thought consumes ehergy.
Scientist conclude that the amount of energy you would expend in one hour digging a pit is the same as the amount you expend in 15 minutes of thinking and worrying . So mental activity requires four times more mnergy that physical activity. These days , man's physical activty has decreased,but his mnetal activity has increased . The head has become an exploiter it does not allow energy to flow anywhere else .The head consumes all the enrgy . The heart is not aggressive.It waits.
Kabir says,many people spend thier lives reading . They read countless books and scriptures and finally they die,but they do not attain wisdom Wisdom has no relation to information. As you keep on reading and listening and accumlating facts your meomory becomes very full,and you will know much without really knowing anything,
According to Kabir, a man of letters is a scholar who has only read about love. The hindi word for love is prem and is made up of two and a half letters. Kabir says to read theses two and a half letters in a book is meaningless.Only when a person falls in love with someone do the two and a half leteers"PREM" become complete .ONe letter is for the lover, and the half is for the beloved and the half is for something unknown that exists between thre two.
No matter how hard you try, love never becomes complete.You are never content..It is also an indication that it is everlasting .Remember , what so ever attains to completion , dies. To remain incomplete is love's nature. So a lover is never satisfied and therefore his joy is endless.
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