Today’s thought:
The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
–Helen Keller
And now, Kabir, day 21:
The couplet, transliterated:
Kabira jogi manhi ke, tan jogi kou aur, |
Man ke jog lagawat, dasa bhai kachoo aur ||
Translation:
Kabir is an ascetic of the mind, not of the body |
If all did the same, their lot would be so much better ||
My understanding:
Kabir here is speaking of the relation between mind and body. Most philosophies and thinkers seem to point to the mind as a guest of the body, or as a dress to be worn at birth and discarded at death.
The average human gets so caught up in taking care of the body that the entire mind’s energies are devoted to the one task. If instead of the mind taking care of the body, the body were put to the task of serving the mind in it’s true endeavor of completing life’s tasks, humanity would be better served – both the individual and all society would be the benefactors.