00:00question is from Nishant Rajji
00:03he is saying
00:05Achara ji I have been listening to
00:07Sufi and Bhakti poetry and despite
00:09being intellectuals and scholars example
00:11Kabir sahab and Kushro they put
00:13emphasis on affection then
00:15smartness, stunningness and intellect
00:17is that because generally intellectuals
00:19are considered detached and to explore
00:21the opposite they now are putting
00:23more emphasis to affection
00:25no no not at all
00:26in fact
00:28intellect
00:30and
00:32attachment
00:34and the normal kind of affection
00:37they go together
00:39you know what is the dictionary meaning of affection
00:42you will be surprised
00:45what is affection
00:47just check
00:50the pure meaning
00:52the common meaning is affection means love
00:56sneh
00:58figure out and let me know
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01:18you can be very very attached in fact intellect will be attached
01:25so it is not as if intellect and affection are opposite of each other no
01:30if you want to understand
01:37the words that belong to these two dimensions you will have to consider the respective sets
01:41what goes with intellect
01:42what goes with intellect
01:43attachment
01:45attachment
01:47ego
01:48exploitation
01:49ego
01:50exploitation
01:51the usual kind of emotional relationship
01:56relationship
01:57relationship
01:58what goes with intelligence
02:01love
02:02so it is not as if
02:06love is the opposite of
02:10intellect
02:12intellect
02:16real love comes with intelligence
02:20with intellect you do have love the false kind of love
02:25and my hunch is that when you say affection you are referring to this very false kind of love
02:31that is that does not go against intellect that goes with intellect
02:38the false kind of love
02:41accompanies
02:43the intellect very smoothly
02:46the common notion is
02:49if you are an intellectual then you are dry
02:53and if you are not an intellectual then you are wet
02:56whatever that means
03:00no not not true
03:02not true
03:04the plane of intellect is the plane of duality
03:09you are dry one moment just to be drenched the next
03:17they are not opposites they belong to the same plane
03:22the one that you see as very dry in the office will be very wet the moment he reaches home
03:28in fact all the hours of dryness
03:34will make him even more eager to get wet
03:41these two go hand in hand they are not
03:43things of different dimensions they belong to the same plane
03:50kindly do not see differences where there are none
03:55intellect and affection go hand in hand
03:58intellect and the common kind of love they go hand in hand
04:02because they both belong to the ego
04:07they both belong to the ego so they go hand in hand
04:10what does not go with intellect is real love not affection
04:16real love comes with intelligence
04:18that's a different plane
04:25so in your normal life
04:27in your normal observation experience
04:31you have
04:33as you say dry people
04:35and wet people they are one and the same
04:37and the same
04:40no difference at all
04:43the one who is very wet for his family members let's say
04:46will be very dry towards the rest of the world
04:49is that not so?
04:53and the one is dry is dry only because
04:56his wet ambitions could not be fulfilled
04:59so now he is frustrated against life
05:04and acting very dry
05:06but the more dry he acts the more he is proving that he is desperate to get wet
05:12and that's why he is acting so dry
05:15in fact he is communicating it to entire universe
05:18I am unhappy that's why I am dry
05:20that's why I am dry
05:22and I will continue to act dry
05:24till you fulfill my desires
05:27and that day something rains on him
05:30all his dryness is gone
05:32in fact his dryness is just to attract the rains
05:36no?
05:38it's a very tested proven script
05:41act extremely dry
05:43and then there will be an opportunity to get wet
05:45act extremely pricey
05:53chances are
05:55you will be
05:57picked
06:01act very reluctant
06:07I don't want to
06:11I don't want anything from you
06:16chances are you will be paid
06:19and also laid
06:23just act reluctant
06:26I don't want to
06:28no no no
06:31these dualities
06:33they all belong to the same plane
06:36the fool and the saint they do not belong to the same plane
06:40the fool and the saint they do not belong to the same plane
06:43in your question you named a few saints
06:47and you said they display affection
06:49is affection
06:51then the opposite of intellect
06:53no no no
06:54the saints don't display affection at all
06:56affection means actually disease
07:00affection means disease
07:02the saints have no affection
07:05the saints have love and love has nothing to do with affection
07:08affection
07:10affection and affliction go together
07:19it is not affection that characterizes a saint
07:22it is love that characterizes him
07:27affection and dryness they go together
07:29always
07:32and affection and love they never go together
07:34so you have to be very clear
07:36about what accompanies what
07:38so you have to be very clear
07:41about what accompanies what
07:43is one
07:45is one
07:49is one
07:51is what
07:53is one
07:57is one
07:59is one
08:00is one
08:02and it
08:04is all
08:10is one
08:11is one
