The saint is not obliged to conform to your expectations || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Lalleshwari

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The saint is not obliged to conform to your expectations || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Lalleshwari

Acharya Prashant

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The saint is not obliged to conform to your expectations || Acharya Prashant, on Saint Lalleshwari

‘In what direction am I going, how shall I find that road? I hope they will send me a map before it’s too late, or it is all over for me. My breath all gone to waste.’ ~ Lalleshwari

Questioner (Q): Lalla had surrendered all her life to That. Now why this confusion? Why is she saying that a road is still to be found? Why is she asking for a map? Why is she saying that it might be too late? Why is she afraid that her breath might all be gone to waste?

Acharya Prashant (AP): The mind will go where it has to go. A surrendered mind is still a mind. There is a beautiful line from the scripture ‘Drig Drishya Viveka’. It says, “यत्र यत्र मनोयाति तत्र तत्र समाधय” (Wherever the mind goes, there is Samadhi). It does not say that the mind goes nowhere, that the mind is not wandering at all. It is saying, “यत्र यत्र मनोयाति तत्र तत्र समाधय” Mind is still going. What else will the mind do? Thoughts are still there. Will you change the mental apparatus, the brain, the cells, the way you are physically configured? No, that continues, but all that continues in peace. States of mind keep changing, yet you are in peace. To realize does not mean that the mind will now be in some constant, ideal state. The states of mind will keep changing, they have to, and they must. That’s the fun of life, Leela.

Sometimes you will be angry, sometimes you will be sad, sometimes you will be happy, sometimes you will sleep, sometimes you will wake up, sometimes you will be tired, sometimes you will be energetic and refreshed, yet there would be something within which would be untouched by all the changing states of mind. Sometimes you might be worried as well, which is alright. Something very subtle changes. It is not as if you develop giant shoulders or big thigh muscles after liberation. It is not gross. It is not a thing of display. It is something very very internal, very subtle. Yes, its fragrance spreads. On the surface, things might remain just the same.

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