Pivot

St. Kabir in his satsang spoke about a grinding stone. He said, "This stone revolves and nobody escapes. When the wheat goes into the grinding stone, it's crushed; there is no way out." Then his son Kamal stood up and said, "Father, there is one way to escape. When I see the grinding stone revolve, I laugh to myself. The grains of wheat closest to the centre go uncrushed." Do you get the point or not? There's a pivot in the centre. If you stay close to the centre you will not fall in between the two stones, so you will not be crushed. `Pivot' means the fulcrum, the centrepoint, What is the pivot of the universe? You know that all the planets in the solar system revolve around the sun. But the sun is stationary. When an action takes place around a pivot, the pivot itself is stationary. The wheel of a cart spins, but the pivot, the axle, remains stationary. The ceiling fan revolves, but the rod it hangs from remains stationary. In your life, all the changes, all the actions which are taking place are happening around that entity which is unchangeable in itself, because energy is unchangeable - it can neither be created nor destroyed.
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