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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 29.12.2018, Advait BodhSthal, Noida, India

Context:

पाछी उड़ा गगन को, धड़ रहा परदेस,
पानी पीवे चोंच बिन, भूल गया वा देस
~ गुरु कबीर साहेब

(The swan flew up the unknown skies, free from her gross form. Beakless, she drank water there, forgetting her earthly home)
~ Guru Kabir Saheb

How to understand the following poem by Guru Kabir Saheb?
“I said to the wanting creature inside me,
What is this river you want to cross?
There are no travelers on the river road, and no road.
DO you see anyone moving about on that bank?
There is no river at all.
And no boat and no boatman.
There is no towel rope either and no one to pull it.
There is no ground, no sky, no time, no bank, no fort, and there is no body, and no mind.
Do you believe that there is some place,
that will make the soul less thirsty?
And in that great absence,
You will find nothing.
Be strong then and enter your own body.
There you have a solid place for your feat.
Think about it carefully. Don’t go off somewhere else. .

Who is the beloved, saints sing of?
Who is Guru Kabir and how to understand his teachings?
What is ego and what is its deepest desire?
How to understand the following couplet by Kabir Saheb?
Do you think there is still an unthirsty place?

Music Credits: Milind Date
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Transcript
00:00I said to the wanting creature inside me,
00:11What is this river you want to cross?
00:16There are no travellers on the river road, and no road.
00:22Do you see anyone moving about on that bank or nesting?
00:28There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman.
00:34There is no tow rope either, and no one to pull it.
00:43There is no ground, no sky, no time, no bank, no food.
00:48And there is no body, and no mind.
00:52Do you believe there is some place that will make the soul less thirsty?
00:59In that great absence, you will find nothing.
01:03Be strong then, and enter into your own body.
01:10Be strong then, and enter into your own body.
01:15There you have a solid place for your feet.
01:18Think about it carefully.
01:21Don't go off somewhere else.
01:24So she is saying, Acharyaji, the thirst of the soul cannot be quenched by anyone.
01:31True.
01:32Yet there is hope and longing for God.
01:38What does Kabir Sahab meant by entering into your own body, don't go off somewhere else?
01:44Who is thirsty?
01:48The bodied one is thirsty.
01:55Before you look around to quench your thirst, it is important to understand the nature of
02:06this thirst.
02:08It is important to go within yourself and know why you are thirsty at all.
02:17Who is the one who is thirsty?
02:19What exactly is the definition of this thirst?
02:23That's what Kabir Sahab is saying.
02:36Thirst overwhelms.
02:43It simply takes over your mind.
02:53One starts panicking.
02:59One feels a strong urge to act because one is thirsty.
03:05Something has to be done.
03:10And what can one do?
03:11One does what one is trained to do, conditioned to do.
03:16One starts running where?
03:18In the world, towards the world.
03:23So something arises within.
03:26It's a sensation of insufficiency.
03:29It's a sensation of discomfort.
03:30It's a sensation of unrest.
03:36The sensation implies, come on, do something.
03:41Something is not right.
03:44So what do you do?
03:45You do what you can do.
03:46What can man do?
03:47Run around.
03:48So man starts running around.
03:49That is what comes to man as a nature of his build-up.
04:00What does not instinctively come to man is the realization that it is first of all important
04:07to ask, what is this thirst?
04:10What do I want?
04:13Before I ask for a solution, should I not first understand the problem?
04:28Before I say, this is what I want and this is how I want to get it, should I not first
04:32ask who am I?
04:36Saints have always asked you to look at yourself.
04:48All your desires are yours, right?
04:52It's not merely a desire, it's your desire.
05:00Fine, let's fulfill the desire, but let's at least know what we want.
05:10Even when you go to a shopkeeper, you have to tell him what you want.
05:17No shopkeeper will tell you what you want and if a shopkeeper succeeds in telling you
05:21what you want, he's surely fooling you.
05:27You have to know what you want.
05:34Saints are forever encouraging you to see from where you are making your statements.
05:44See what you've written here.
05:45Acharyaji, the thirst of the soul cannot be quenched by anyone, anywhere, at any time.
05:53How do you know?
05:56How do you know, Parameshwari?
06:04At most you can say that for you the thirst has not been quenched so far, but how are
06:13you asserting that it cannot be quenched at all by anybody, anywhere, at any time?
06:23That is what is meant by going into oneself.
06:32Seeing the structure of one's minds, seeing how things happen there, seeing how hope arises,
06:42seeing how fear rises, seeing how the mind concludes, seeing how one quickly gets hurt,
06:57seeing how demands and insecurities are deeply related, seeing how that which one very dearly
07:10wants is exactly what one must staunchly avoid, seeing how that which you want to clutch
07:29is lost exactly because you clutch it.
07:42All these things are happening constantly and they are happening with you.
07:47Aren't you in a great position to see that these things are happening?
07:55Kabir Sahab is saying, go within yourself, enter into your own body.
08:11या घट भीतर, साथ समुंदर, घट is his preferred word for the body.
08:33If you can know what this thirst is, you are already quenched.
09:03पाणी पीवे चोच भिन भूल गया बादेश.
09:11The swan flew up the unknown skies free from her gross form.
09:16Beakless she drank water there, forgetting her earthly home.
09:22Devotee ji is saying, what does Kabir Sahab mean by the swan losing the gross form and
09:27beakless drinking water from the unknown skies.
09:36You think you belong to the earth and as long as you are the body, you are right in what
09:47you think.
09:48Yes, the body belongs to the earth, but that's not where your thirst would be quenched.
09:59Kabir Sahab is saying, let the body belong to the earth, you fly up to the sky.
10:11That's where you will drink without the body.
10:17There is a water that is for the body.
10:24There is a water that is drank through the beak.
10:29There is a water that is drank through the body.
10:31It is for the body and there is a water that is drank without the beak.
10:37It is the heavenly water.
10:40It is the water of the skies.
10:43There is a water of the earth that can place it at most the body.
10:50The body is thirsty, the water of the earth helps, but you are not the body and therefore
10:56the water of the earth will not suffice for you.
11:00You need some other water.
11:05So let the one who is really thirsty fly over up to the skies and there he shall be
11:19really quenched.
11:25Once you are there, you will forget all about the earthly pleasures and attachments.
11:40The body will still remain on the earth, but you will remain with your beloved and that's
11:50the way of living.
11:54Let the body belong to the earth.
11:56You stay belonging to your beloved.
12:24There is the piala of the earth, there are the earthly taverns which simply inebriate
12:49you and then there is the piala of the skies which brings you back to awareness.
13:05That is what Kabir Sahab is advising you to drink, drink the heavenly nectar.
13:20The earthly juices you have had enough of already, have they sufficed?
13:30Even at least from your experience, if not from the words of the saints.

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