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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 22.09.2017, Advait BodhSthal, Noida, India
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Sometimes I forget completely what companionship is! Unconscious and insane, I spill sad energy everywhere. My story gets told in various ways: a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy.
Divide up my forgetfulness to any number, it will go around. These dark suggestions that I follow, are they part of some plan? Friends, be careful. Don’t come near me out of curiosity, or sympathy.
~ Rumi .
What is the essence of the story?
How to break our deep tendencies?
Why is Rumi telling to change one' center?
What are dark suggestions of consciousness?
How to understand Rumi's teachings?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 22.09.2017, Advait BodhSthal, Noida, India
Context:
Sometimes I forget completely what companionship is! Unconscious and insane, I spill sad energy everywhere. My story gets told in various ways: a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy.
Divide up my forgetfulness to any number, it will go around. These dark suggestions that I follow, are they part of some plan? Friends, be careful. Don’t come near me out of curiosity, or sympathy.
~ Rumi .
What is the essence of the story?
How to break our deep tendencies?
Why is Rumi telling to change one' center?
What are dark suggestions of consciousness?
How to understand Rumi's teachings?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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LearningTranscript
00:00Sometimes, I forget completely what companionship is.
00:11Unconscious and insane, I spill sad energy everywhere.
00:19My story gets told in various ways, a romance, a dirty joke, a whore, a vacancy.
00:27Divide up my forgetfulness to any number will do a lot for me.
00:35These dark suggestions that I follow, are they a part of some plan?
00:41Friends, we care so much.
00:44Don't come near me out of curiosity, for some reason.
00:50So the question is, Ajali ji, what are these dark suggestions?
00:54Are they a part of some plan?
01:00It's all the misery, gloom of life.
01:03That is these dark suggestions.
01:06By suggestions, Rumi means the urge, the tendency, the motivation to remain in darkness, to act out of darkness.
01:24And there is a lot of that darkness in our life.
01:30We follow that, as if somebody is instructing us or advising or compelling.
01:41And we are following his suggestions.
01:54Now, Rumi is saying, are they a part of some plan?
02:04And that is also the question here.
02:07Are they a part of some plan?
02:09Yes, there is a plan.
02:12The plan is that you have to look at those suggestions and get rid of them.
02:22Somebody suggests you something.
02:28By following his suggestion, you find that your misery is deepening.
02:33Your darkness is deepening.
02:38What do you do with the suggestion?
02:41You dismiss it.
02:42Do you dismiss only the suggestion?
02:46No, you also dismiss the one who has been suggesting.
02:52And you have been following these suggestions since long.
02:57Sometimes you see how much pain comes out of these suggestions, sometimes you don't see that.
03:06As a result, you feel that some of your motivations are good for you and the others are not.
03:15You feel some of your actions are good and the others are not.
03:20You feel some of your thoughts are good and the others are not.
03:24Isn't it very common to see people distinguishing between positive thoughts and negative thoughts?
03:32We are prepared at most to dismiss some of our motivations, our urges.
03:46But even when we dismiss them, we dismiss them relatively.
03:52We dismiss the good in relation to the bad.
03:57Correct?
04:02We dismiss the bad in relation to the good.
04:07Which means that every time we dismiss the bad, we end up accepting something else as good.
04:14Every time you dismiss something bad,
04:21you end up accepting something that you call as good.
04:27So the rejection is never total.
04:30In fact, there is no rejection at all.
04:33It is a zero-sum game.
04:35Something has been rejected and in its lieu, something else has been accepted.
04:42So the center from where all these suggestions come,
04:48all the motivations arise, that center remains untouched, unscrutinized.
04:58Dismiss the very center.
05:01For that, you need to dismiss not only that which appears problematic
05:08but also that which appears auspicious.
05:13For that, you need to dismiss not only that which appears problematic
05:20but also that which appears auspicious.
05:31Then the plan will fructify.
05:37We do not enable the plan to achieve its result.
05:42The world is a plan.
05:48What is the objective of the plan?
05:51That the plan must be seen through.
05:54That the plan must be dismantled.
05:59When you are given a riddle, a puzzle,
06:06what is the objective?
06:08The objective is not that you remain forever caught in the riddle.
06:13The objective is that the riddle must be solved.
06:19That is the plan.
06:21The solution is the plan.
06:22The dissolution is the plan.
06:26Let the plan materialize.
06:38Rumi has said dark suggestions.
06:41I will add bright suggestions to it.
06:52Whether it is the dark suggestions that you follow
06:55or the bright suggestions that you follow,
06:57see where are all of these suggestions coming from.
07:02Suggestion is motivation.
07:04Suggestion is the urge to act.
07:08See where are all the dualistic, contrasting inclinations arising from.
07:18Sometimes you want to eat.
07:21Sometimes you don't want to.
07:23Sometimes you love.
07:25Sometimes you hate.
07:27Is there really a dimensional difference between our love and hate?
07:32Are they not just two sides of the same coin?
07:40Is love always not prepared to quickly turn into hate?
07:48Look at your enemies today.
07:54Do you have strangers there?
08:02All your enemies are but people who
08:11did not fulfill or could not fulfill the expectations
08:16that you had from them as friends.
08:21The dark and the bright are not merely coexisting.
08:26They are existing as each other.
08:32You may even say because of each other.
08:36Though that is not precise.
08:41But it is not false if you say
08:46that darkness exists because of so-called brightness.
08:52And the brightness exists only in relation to the darkness.
08:57They all arise from this darkness.
09:04And they both remain protected because they both appear different.
09:08Had they appeared same, both would have disappeared.
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