Before you chase goals, become goal-less || Acharya Prashant, on Lalleshwari (2014)

Impart not esoteric Truth to fools, Nor on molasses feed an ass. Do not sow seeds in sandy beds, Nor waste your oil on cakes of bran. -Lal Ded

Speaker: The question is, ‘Why is a compassionate saint speaking such words? They look more like coming from a result oriented mind.’

When you say, ‘Why is a compassionate saint speaking these words?’, who are you referring to? There is a Lal Ded that never took birth and will never die. There is a Lal Ded who is so expansive that space cannot contain her and there is a Lal Ded who surely took birth and who surely die. There is a Lal Ded who is limited in a body, there is a Lal Ded who is living, eating and breathing in achievement and there is nothing left for her to get. And there is a Lal Ded who must move around, go place to place, speak and dance. There is a Lal Ded who is pure silence and there is a Lal Ded who must deal in words. Who are you referring to? Who is the saint? When you say saint, what do you mean? What do you mean? Your query is that why is Lal Ded speaking in a language that looks result oriented?

She is saying:

Impart not esoteric Truth to fools,Do not feed sugar to an ass.Do not sow seeds in sandy beds,Nor waste your oil on cakes of bran.

First of all consider, what do you mean by a saint? The Lal Ded who is saying this is the one who is limited in a body, who speaks in words and who talks to the limited you. The real Lal Ded does not speak; she is unmoving in her silence. The one who has to speak will always speak in words, in language, in limitations; will refer to objects, will talk of space and time, will have future and will perish and die – Do not confuse the two.