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कबीर बादल प्रेम का, हम पर बरसा आय।
अंतर भीगी आत्मा, हरी भई बनराय॥
Says Kabir, Love clouds have gathered, it is raining down on me.
My entire soul is soaked in it, all round there is greenery
¬ Guru Kabir
¬ What is divine love?
¬ What is the love that saints sing of?
¬ How to understand the meaning of the couplet by Kabir Sahib?
¬ What would happen if there was no love?
¬ Is logic enough to sustain a man?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: 24.12.2018, Advait Learning Camp, Jaipur, India
Context:
कबीर बादल प्रेम का, हम पर बरसा आय।
अंतर भीगी आत्मा, हरी भई बनराय॥
Says Kabir, Love clouds have gathered, it is raining down on me.
My entire soul is soaked in it, all round there is greenery
¬ Guru Kabir
¬ What is divine love?
¬ What is the love that saints sing of?
¬ How to understand the meaning of the couplet by Kabir Sahib?
¬ What would happen if there was no love?
¬ Is logic enough to sustain a man?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Kabira Badal Prem Ka Ampar Barsiya Hai Antar Bheegi Aatma Hari Bhai Banarai
00:24Says Kabir, Love clouds have gathered. It is raining down on me. My entire soul is soaked in it. All round there is greenery.
00:34The question goes as follows.
00:37Dear Acharyaji Pranam. Is the greenery mentioned in the above Doha something beyond peace?
00:47I feel as if every cell of Kabirji was pulsating with the divine love.
00:53When he says love clouds have gathered raining down on me. Could you please elaborate what is he pointing to?
01:01Deep gratitude and love.
01:06Just sing what Kabir Sahab is saying. Just sing.
01:13I may keep trying for two hours. I will just not be able to go beyond Kabir Sahab.
01:24What he has said in these two lines, I won't be able to say in two hours.
01:32So do not try to understand him through me. Understand him through him.
01:38Just sing. It's anyway so lucid and self-explanatory. Is it not?
01:44Kabir Badal Prem Ka Ampar Barsiya Hai.
01:50Antar Bheegi Aatma Hari Bhai Banarai.
01:57Without love there is merely dryness.
02:04Without love there is merely logic.
02:12Anybody from computer engineering background here?
02:23Machines work on logic, especially computing machines.
02:31And the thing with man is that at least half part of his brain works on logic.
02:38Thankfully only half.
02:44Without love there is just logic and it's extremely dry.
02:55The two hemispheres of man's brain are a good pointer.
03:03Of course nature didn't deliberately evolve them so that they may suit my example this night.
03:16Still they lend themselves very beautifully to point at a great revelation.
03:38Man cannot live by logic alone.
03:41Man cannot live by arguments alone.
03:51In fact, not only are both important.
03:57If one of the two has to be chosen, it would be the one that is the more fundamental of the two.
04:08And of the two, love is more fundamental.
04:18Why is love more fundamental?
04:20Because when you say that there is the yearning of the mind for the truth called love.
04:37And then there is the resistance to it, which is just the bodily tendencies called vritti and prakriti.
04:49Then you have to remember that not only is the yearning of the mind towards love.
05:00Even the resistance of prakriti to love is love.
05:12Please get this.
05:17Now that sounds paradoxical.
05:20We are saying that we are usually split in two.
05:25One part that unreasonably wants to merge into something greater, wants to relax into sleep.
05:39And then there is the other logical part that wants continuation, that wants security.
05:48What I'm saying is the unreasonable part is surely pulsating with love.
05:55But even the reasonable part, even the logical part is driven by nothing but love, though indirect.
06:03Even when you resist love, it is because of love, just the resisting love is misguided.
06:16Love is more fundamental.
06:20You rush towards dissolution.
06:32There are moments in your life.
06:35There are special incidents.
06:41When you just want to sacrifice everything for something holy, something very lovely, something very precious.
06:50And then there is the usual instinct of self-preservation.
06:57The instinct towards self-preservation says, hold on, don't die, don't dissolve, don't give up, don't surrender, just continue.
07:15You must ask, why does even the instinct for self-preservation exist?
07:23Why do you want to continue?
07:25You want to continue in time so that at the end of time you might meet your beloved.
07:39There is that within you which says, I want to jump out of the stream of time right now.
07:47I want that the inner clock stops right now.
07:52And then there is that in you which is very logical, which says, be a little considerate, use the intellect, create a better future.
08:08Tomorrow you will get that which you so desperately want.
08:19So even the logical part is looking for nothing but the same thing that the so-called illogical part is wanting.
08:30Both want the same thing.
08:33One wants it right now, the other wants it in the future.
08:39So obviously both are driven by love.
08:44One is driven by crazy love, the other is driven by love tempered with, mollified by logic.
08:59Our life is nothing but an interplay of these two instincts.
09:07These two instincts have sometimes been called as Yin and Yang, sometimes Purush and Prakriti, sometimes Apollonian and Dionysian.
09:19But these two, thesis, antithesis, they keep shaping our life.
09:29Are you getting it?
09:34Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsa Hai.
09:39Antar Bheegi Aatma Hari Bhai Banarai.
09:44There was such dryness.
09:49And now sap is running through the veins of trees.
09:54There is greenery.
09:59Something within has just been showered with ambrosia.
10:10I see a juicy fruit appearing.
10:22I see blood running now through the veins.
10:33Are you getting it?
10:40Kabir Sahab is first and foremost a poet of love.
10:49But that's such a stupid thing to say.
10:53Because you cannot be a poet of understanding.
10:59All poetry is just love.
11:05And therefore all great saints have been poets irrespective of whether they wrote in prose or verse.
11:31You don't make it happen.
11:43It rains upon you.
11:45You cannot compel or guide or instruct a cloud to bless you with showers.
11:58Or can you?
12:00All that you can do is not run indoors when it rains.
12:13Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsa Hai.
12:18Do hear what Kabir Sahab is lovingly silent about.
12:28When the cloud comes, he remains available to be drenched in the rain.
12:42Otherwise we all have umbrellas.
12:50And as technology evolves, we'll have even better means to avoid getting wet.
13:03I didn't cause the cloud to come.
13:06It just happened with me.
13:08Who is the one who is doing this to me?
13:11What does he want?
13:13Or does he even want anything?
13:15Maybe he's just responding to my want.
13:34It rained upon me.
13:39And the entire world appears green now.
13:42What's going on?
13:48Did Kabir Sahab say that the cloud of love rained upon the entire world?
14:00Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsa Hai.
14:07Or did he say Jag Par Barsa Hai?
14:12Where did it rain?
14:15It rained upon him.
14:20It's strange.
14:22And what has turned green?
14:25The world has turned green.
14:28It's raining here.
14:32And the greenery is sprouting there.
14:36What nonsense?
14:39Oh, just love.
14:44Nonsense is unnecessarily too long a word.
14:50Eight characters.
14:52Cut that by half.
14:54Instead of saying nonsense, say love.
14:59Four units are sufficient.
15:03And in Kabir's language, it is not even four, it is dhai.
15:15Something has happened to you and the world has changed.
15:21Something has happened to you and the world has changed.
15:27Now that you are in love, you cannot look at the world in the same way as you used to look at it.
15:48This again contains a lot of revelations in its own simple understated way.
16:02Usually our love is about one special thing or person.
16:16So even if you say that you see greenery somewhere, that greenery is commonly just a man or woman in green.
16:30So you are in love and she is your Hari Ali.
16:34That's how you colloquially put it in Hindi, don't you?
16:41But Kabir Sahib is saying Hari bhai ban rai.
16:48The entire jungle has turned green.
16:51I see greenery not merely in one tree, but in the entire.
16:56That's the difference between common love and Kabir's love.
17:02In your love, there is just one green tree.
17:07In Kabir's love, the entire world has turned green.
17:17There is nothing dry anywhere anymore.
17:28What does that mean?
17:34Love is a great, great pain.
17:41Listen to this carefully.
17:43Love is a great pain.
17:48It is not without reason that Kabir Sahib is saying that Kabir Badal Prem Ka Hum Par Barsai.
17:55Do you know why he is using the trope of cloud and water and rain?
18:15Because love burns, love hurts.
18:28Love is nothing but the realization of separation.
18:39In Kabir's love, because you become very, very sensitive to your own yearning for the truth,
18:58you also start seeing how everything in the universe is desperately wanting just that same beloved as you are.
19:24You hardly see a difference between yourself and others.
19:36Listen carefully.
19:39What is the difference between you and you?
19:47How do you say we are different?
19:53If the two of you have exactly the same identical desires, would you still say we two are different?
20:08Difference implies difference in desires.
20:15And the difference in desires is so easily visible.
20:22It is right there to see, undeniable.
20:26You want something that he does not want.
20:29And he wants something that only he wants.
20:34He wants to go back to a particular house that is only his.
20:39You will get up and look for a pair of slippers that belong only to you.
20:49When you want to drink water, you want to drink it for yourself, don't you?
20:58You are thirsty.
21:00Water is your particular personal desire.
21:06Love is when you start seeing the deep desire beneath all your superficial desires.
21:16Love is when you start seeing what you are really, really thirsty for.
21:28Superficially, the desires of different people are different.
21:31Deeply, we all share one desire.
21:38So, what is it that happens in love?
21:40In love, two things are happening simultaneously.
21:46One, you have come in contact with your deep self that wants union with the beloved.
21:56Secondly, you have seen that this is what all want.
22:07There is nobody who does not want deeply the same thing as I do.
22:14Superficially, he wants black and he wants white.
22:18Deeply, both of them want only satisfaction.
22:24Now the world is not full of strangers.
22:29When there are just strangers, there is dryness or is there not?
22:36If you are with a group of strangers, is it a very juicy situation?
22:48But when you are with people you call as your own, then juice flows freely or does it not?
22:58A college reunion and beer flows freely.
23:04I am with people who are my own.
23:10The true lover starts seeing that everybody is exactly like himself.
23:24So, not only are all these people my own, they are me.
23:31Not only are they not strangers, they are not even my own, they are identical with me.
23:44And if they are identical with me, how can there be any dryness?
23:48You are not only my brother, you are me.
23:55Forget about being a stranger, you are not even my brother.
24:00You are not even my mirror image, you are me.
24:05Those eyes are searching for just the same thing as these eyes.
24:12There is nothing else that anybody's eyes are looking for.
24:18It doesn't matter what the object of our perception is, we are searching for the same thing.
24:26Now are you with aliens?
24:33Now are you with foreigners?
24:38You are not even with family, you are with yourself.
24:45That's love.
24:48So, I said love means two things.
24:50Love firstly means total dedication towards the beloved.
24:55And secondly, total identification with the world.
25:03But first of all, you need total dis-identification with the world.
25:12Because unless you are totally dis-identified with the world, how will you identify with him?
25:23And that is why you know why saints have so much compassion for the world.
25:32Now can you relate these two things?
25:35Saints have great love for him.
25:39Saints have great love for him.
25:42And saints' principal concern is with the truth.
25:47What is a saint principally concerned with, the world or the truth?
25:51Truth.
25:53But at the same time, we have seen saints lay down their lives for the sake of the world.
26:00We are into Christmas now.
26:03If Jesus is the son of God and Jesus loves God much more than anything or anybody else,
26:12what is Jesus doing among men and women of this world?
26:17What is the primary concern of Jesus?
26:23The love of God.
26:30That's what he principally wants, right?
26:33Does Jesus say I am the son of this world?
26:36He says no.
26:39Even my mortal mother is a virgin.
26:41How can I be a son of this world?
26:46I belong to my father.
26:47And if Jesus belongs to his father, why is he so laboriously,
26:51why is he so painstakingly working for the people of this world?
26:56That's the thing about love.
27:00These are the twin features of love.
27:05Because you love him so much, therefore you also see that all love him equally.
27:13It's just that they are a bit deluded.
27:20In spite of loving him so much, they do not know how deeply they love him.
27:30So their love becomes misdirected.
27:34It's a stream that should be flowing towards the ocean.
27:38And instead it starts getting lost in sands and quagmires and various places.
27:49And therefore the saint works tirelessly for the world.
27:54Because he knows that you are me.
27:57Therefore by working for you, I am actually working for myself.
28:06Antarbhigi Atma Hari Bhai Ban Raha Hai.
28:13Me, me everywhere.
28:15I am with my own people.
28:17It feels great.
28:19And therefore it also implies that I cannot go to him alone.
28:24Because if you are me, how can I go there alone?
28:27I'll have to take you along.
28:30And now that explains why a saint keeps singing for the world all his life.
28:37Because he knows fully well that he cannot go there alone.
28:44He is me and he is me and he is me.
28:47How will I take the flight alone?