Today’s thought – Everything you have
There is so very much available to you. In reaching for your dreams, make use of everything you have.
Don’t be dismayed or embarrassed by what you have to work with. Instead, work with whatever you have and it will grow more useful and effective with each effort.
Don’t place a judgment on your abilities before you even put them to use. Go ahead, get to work, and see how quickly your skills increase.
Look back at the good things you’ve accomplished in the past. That power of accomplishment is still with you, so choose now to put it to use again for even more exciting and compelling purposes.
Think of all the great ideas you’ve had but have never followed through on.
Now is when you can make the best of them come to life.
The challenges are great and yet the value that flows through your life is far greater. Use everything you can, and you can accomplish anything you choose.”
– Ralph Marston
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Kabir – day 6
The couplet – transliterated
Sayeen Itna Deejiye, Ja Mein Kutumb Samaye Main Bhi Bhookha Na Rahun, Sadhu Na Bhookha Jaye
Translation
Give me enough, O Lord, that it be suffice to envelop my family Enough so I should not suffer cravings, nor the visitor goes unfed
My Understanding
This couplet deals with the concept of contentment, compassion and a very clear attitude of service. It is not greed when Kabir asks God for abundance. He prays to God to give him enough that would be suffice to take care of his needs.
The next lines add another dimension. It reveals the compassion Kabir has for others. In India it is a tradition that if an ascetic visits, the household will make sure that they feed him. Sadhu literally means a monk, who has renounced the “world of desire”. However, in this couplet, the word “Sadhu” expands to accommodate the visitor, the guest, the one who comes in search of care, comfort, solace or even just companionship.
Enough for me, and enough for the world – a lofty thought, indeed, but simple – and Kabir epitomized simplicity in all aspects of life.
Here, he seems to have expanded the thought of the animal kingdom to humans
– no animal ever takes more than its needs – but modern man seems to have forgotten that simple basic rule 🙂
If we all learnt to be content, the world will indeed become the utopia we all search for – for true contentment and bliss lie in satisfaction, not accumulation. If we do not have more than we need individually, the world has a lot more than humanity could ever need!