What are dark suggestions of consciousness? || Acharya Prashant, on Rumi (2017)

Sometimes I forget completely what companionship is!Unconscious and insane, I spill sad energy everywhere.My story gets told in various ways: a romance, a dirty joke, a war, a vacancy.Divide up my forgetfulness to any number, it will go around.These dark suggestions that I follow, are they part of some plan?

Friends, be careful.Don’t come near me out of curiosity, or sympathy.

~ Rumi

Question: Acharya Ji, what are these dark suggestions? Are they part of some plan?

Acharya Prashant Ji: All the miseries, the gloom of life – that is these ‘dark suggestions’.

By ‘dark suggestions’, Rumi means – the urge, the tendency, the motivation, to remain in darkness, to act out of darkness.

And there is a lot of that darkness in our life. We follow that, as if somebody is instructing us, or advising, or compelling us, and we are following his suggestions.