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Here’s some memories from London.

“Khalak Sab Rain Ka Sapna” - Sant Kabir Saheb | London Sangat Session

What a beautiful reminder from Sant Kabir Saheb : this entire world is like a dream of the night. The people, possessions, victories, defeats, and identities we cling to are all fleeting. Sant Kabir Saheb calls us to awaken to that which is real and everlasting.

This video was recorded during our time in London, where friends from Canada and Germany came together after attending the enlightening sessions of Acharya Ji. Brought together by a shared love for Truth and Saint’s wisdom, we spent time singing, reflecting, and simply enjoying each other’s company.

The setting couldn’t have been more vibrant, a colourful park filled with life, while BMX riders performed incredible flips in the background.

May these songs inspire us to look beyond the passing dream and seek the Truth Kabir Saheb points towards.

Recorded in London, UK
With friends from Canada and German
In gratitude to Sant Kabir Saheb, Baba Bulleh Shah, and Acharya Prashant

Full video 👇

https://youtu.be/YHkJ1rpGclY?si=GFT31GUNofw\_P6BV

Posted by Dasmeet on Acharya Prashant App.

This is my learning from Acharya Ji's session on the following poem by Kabir Saheb. The depth in his words is life changing.

समझ देख मन मीत पियरवा

आशिक हो कर सोना क्या रे ?

पाया हो तो दे ले प्यारे

पाय पाय फिर खोना क्या रे?

रूखा सूखा गम का टुकड़ा

फीका और सलोना क्या रे ?

जब अँखियन में नींद घनेरी

तकिया और बिछौना क्या रे ?

कहैं कबीर प्रेम का मारग

सिर देना तो रोना क्या रे ?

~ कबीर साहब

Preface: Pedagogically, to understand, we need to create two versions of the self, one looking towards the world to consume, the other looking to know its own being.

समझ देख मन मीत पियरवा आशिक हो कर सोना क्या रे? Understand/see my dear friend, Why sleep when you’re a born lover?

Sleep is a metaphor for deliberate ignorance. This is for us when we see something wrong and decide that it was the realisation that was the problem instead of the thing itself, and hence we try to unsee or turn away.

पाया हो तो दे ले प्यारे पाय पाय फिर खोना क्या रे? If you have gained it, give it to others, Why keep gaining it only to lose it again?

Understanding through honest inquiry is being referred to here. 'Giving' in this case will itself bring more rather than reducing, which is opposite from the case of consumption. Knowledge deepens with distribution. When knowledge is halted, dogma sets in. When we keep getting and forgetting, the cycle is futile. Why repeat this futility? And consequently, when we sing (engage) without understanding, what we're sharing is ignorance, and we get more ignorance.

रूखा सूखा गम का टुकड़ा फीका और सलोना क्या रे? Dried and wrinkled piece of suffering, What's so tasteless and (or) attractive about it?

The axis of suffering and pleasure is being denoted here. To seek freedom from suffering doesn't imply seeking pleasure. This mistake needs to be understood and the axis itself needs to be transcended. What a lover can see is freedom, that which is free of the assumed difference between pleasure and suffering.

जब अँखियन में नींद घनेरी तकिया और बिछौना क्या रे? When there is a deep need to sleep, What's the point of pillows and beds?

The seeker self and the ignorant self both want sleep, but one is stuck on fulfilling the comforts of the bed primarily while one primarily wants sleep. (Sleep is a pointer to desires) When we look at what the deepest desire is and then dive into it, we are free from settling at the surface level of desires that keep arising over and over, overlooking the deep desire.

कहैं कबीर प्रेम का मारग सिर देना तो रोना क्या रे? Saint Kabir is saying that on a lover’s path, Why cry when you give your head away?

Head is a metaphor for everything we care for in ignorance. When understanding leads action, all else is peripheral. These things aren't shunned away, but we become indifferent towards them – no longer are they existentially connected to our being.