The Real Saint looks more like a heretic or a lunatic than a saint || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Acharya Prashant: The myth of the Saint, the Saint!
And with, the myth of the Saint we would be able to touch many associated myths. Like the myth of the respect: respectability rather, the myth of godliness. And of course Love!
When we use the word “Saint”, we use it obviously, inevitably in the same frame of mind. From the same center, as we use many other words.
Our language is a language of objects. Any and every words that we know refers to something; something that can be thought of; something that can be touched, conceptualized, seen, felt, hurt; something that is within the domain of the mental activity.
So the obvious result is that even when we use words like saint, God, Truth, freedom, joy, love they turn into objects due to the sheer fact of verbalization. Because you have put them into words, you have willingly or unwillingly turned them into objects. The same thing happens when we refer to the word “Saint”.
The Saint immediately becomes something material, a person, a person you can see, a person who is born, a person who will die, a person who can be hurt, and a person with a body. So for us, the Saint is a person and if Saint is to be person, he had to be special person to be called by the special name called “Saint”.He must have special characteristics.
