The song of the Heart || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Kabir (2017)

*“Hiding in this cage of visible matter*

is the invisible life bird.

Pay attention to her,

She is singing your song”

~Saint Kabir

ACHARYA JI: The invisible is difficult to be attended to. How many of you have ever looked at the invisible? How many of you ever touched that which cannot be touched, or heard that which cannot be heard? But if there is something available to be touched and seen and smelled, it is within your province. You would have some experience of it.

We like to live in the dualistic domain, the dualistic domain is a domain of comfort, the dualistic domain says “I can know and experience while remaining myself.”

Here is this tumbler and here is me. Now, to know this I don’t have to change, do I have to? In fact, if I change I cannot know this, that is the dualistic mode of perception. And that is why man prefers this, seeing only that which is visible, touching only that which can be touched. When I perceive this material, this glass I remain what I am and this remains what it is, in fact, this remains what it is because of what I am; it is convenient. Duality says remain what you are and you can still know.