Love, take me to the Heart! || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2016)

Speaker: Every single line here makes use of characters, objects, metaphors, images, that is the only way language can proceed. That is the tool of language as well as the limitation of language. It will have to talk about something. Whenever you will use words, whenever you will use language, obviously, you would be talking about something or somebody.

When a saint, when a Kabir, wishes to communicate something to mortal ears, he will have to use the language of the mortals, the language that we have built up, the language that is coming from the human mind. So, there are a lot of symbols, objects, motives, lot of wordplay, conjuring of fascinating images.

Let us see…

*(Reads a verse of Kabir) “*Amarpuri le chalo ho sajna”

(Translation: O Beloved! Take me to the land of immortality)

So, the words open, and the opening line suggests, probably, a young woman beseeching, requesting, asking, a lover, to take her to *Amarpuri (the land of immortality).*