On Shiv Shutra : Not Moving Is Faster Than The Fastest.

The source and the manifestation-the progeny

and the material, the body

and the actions of the body-the kala,

are all one.

Shiv Sutra(1.3)

Acharya Prashant: The ‘source’ refers to the origin of it all. ‘Kala’ refers to activity or movement. ‘Sharir’ obviously refers to the body or the material. The source, the material and the movement all are one. They can be one only if you stop expecting that the source lies elsewhere.

Please understand what is being said.

If the source is one with the rock as well as the movement of the rock, then do you need to transform the rock into a temple? If the source is one with all this, then the source is just one with the fact of all this. Then you don’t need to have a creator God.

Dattatreya beautifully puts it in the Avadhoot Upanishads. He says, “Where do I go to salute anybody?” Kabir says that, “Kabir is through with it.” Now God is chasing Kabir! Kabir is through with chasing God, “Maala pherun na jap karun, munh se kahun na Ram; Neither do I pray with the beads, the ‘mala’ nor do I engage myself in any ‘sadhana’, ‘tapa’ or ‘japa’. Nor do I keep…