The Teacher is the voice of Truth, not the man behind the voice || Acharya Prashant (2015)
“A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.
Alone must it seek the ether.
And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun”.
Kahlil Gibran
Speaker: “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings”. You may say that you are talking, that it is your voice that is emerging. But I am asking you, how is it possible that you, who are limited, are talking of the unlimited?
Kahlil Gibran is saying, “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings”, that the voice is not really related to the tongue, that the voice is not really related to the lips either, provided the voice is flying towards the sky. And if there are words that relate to the sky, that relate to the Truth, then those words, remember, could not be coming from the tongue or the lips. It might be appearing so, that the movement of the throat, the tongue and the lips is producing that voice but rest assured that the voice does not belong to the throat and the tongue and the lips. Because as I asked, “How can the limited throat and the petty lips talk of the unlimited?” How is it possible that a mind, a body, living in space-time, really talk of the beyond? How is it possible that a brain conditioned to think only of security and continuation, sing of fearlessness and eternity?
