Today’s quote:
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.
It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there –
buried under the 50,000 thoughts
the average person thinks every day.”
– Deepak Chopra
And now, Kabir Day 33:
The couplet, transliterated:
Bin vaasilai chakiri, bin buddhi ki deh |
Bina gyan ka jogna, phirai lagaye kheh ||
Translation:
Like working without compensation, or a body without intellect |
The ‘ascetic’ without wisdom, roams with ash on his body ||
My understanding:
True wisdom comes from true realization – the understanding of the core of our existence. Talk does not make one wise, nor do external accoutrements.
Without realization, our existence is about as useful as a non-functional light bulb. The shell gains value from the inside- and Kabir asks us to light up and strengthen that core.
Deepak Chopra’s statement (quoted above), talks about this from a different perspective – it is only when we can still the myriad thoughts of the facile outside world that we can look inside to find our true self.