If you are in Love, then why are you asleep? || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Kabir (2018)

Oh Friend, I love you.Think this over, carefully.If you are in Love, then why are you asleep?If you have found him, give yourself to him, take him.Why do you lose track of him again and again?If you are about to fall, into heavy sleep anyway, why waste time smoothing the bed and arranging the pillows?

Kabir will tell you the truth.This is what Love is like: Suppose you had to cut your head off, and give it to someone else, what difference would that make?

~ Guru Kabir Sahib

Question: Acharya Ji, in this poem I felt that Kabir Sahib is encouraging everyone to be in Devotion. Is that so? What does Kabir Sahib mean when he says, “Smoothing the bed and arranging the pillows”? Is he talking about the life of an ordinary, worldly man who falls asleep every now and then?

Acharya Prashant Ji: In Studio Kabir they sing, “Bin jaage na milenge sajan sakhi re (Without being awake, one will not meet the Beloved).” That’s what Kabir Sahib is again saying. “If you are in Love, then why are you asleep?”

About sleep he says, “If you are about to fall asleep anyway, why waste time smoothing the bed and arranging the pillows?”