He would often quote this verse:
"Ai dilaa ab kissee gesoo ka talabdaar na ho,
Quaide hasti men to hai, aur giraftaar na ho."
"O Heart! Be not entrapped by the tresses of a Loved One,
Thou art already in the prison of the body, be not imprisoned any more."
His philosophy of non-attachment and death being a release from the bondage of the human body, had made him a somewhat enlightened soul, and people held him in great respect.
Whenever anyone's mother died he would go to the funeral and carry out a weird dance of joy at the liberation of the soul, and tell the people there to rejoice at this liberation and dance with him.
And then one day his own mother died.
He danced on that day, too, but his dance lacked its swerve and swing, and it was a dance of silence.
He realized then that no matter how great a man's spiritual attainment might be, for as long as he was in the human body,
"the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak!" and that Love was a feeling that could not be denied by any spiritual attainment.
Quaide hasti men to hai, aur giraftaar na ho."
"O Heart! Be not entrapped by the tresses of a Loved One,
Thou art already in the prison of the body, be not imprisoned any more."
His philosophy of non-attachment and death being a release from the bondage of the human body, had made him a somewhat enlightened soul, and people held him in great respect.
Whenever anyone's mother died he would go to the funeral and carry out a weird dance of joy at the liberation of the soul, and tell the people there to rejoice at this liberation and dance with him.
And then one day his own mother died.
He danced on that day, too, but his dance lacked its swerve and swing, and it was a dance of silence.
He realized then that no matter how great a man's spiritual attainment might be, for as long as he was in the human body,
"the spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak!" and that Love was a feeling that could not be denied by any spiritual attainment.
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