“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.”
– Richard Bach
Kabir – The couplet
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transliterated:
Meetha sab koi khaat hai, vish hai laage dhaay |
Neem na koi peevasi, sabe rog mit jaay ||
Translation:
All of us willingly enjoy (eat) sweets, even though the sweet is as poison to us |
No one willingly drinks the juice of the neem, though it can destroy much sickness||
My understanding:
We like to take the easy path in life.
Sweets taste good, though the after-effects are often deleterious to our health. Medicinal foods, though greatly beneficial, often taste bad to abominable, and hence we avoid them.
The tongue sees food for but a couple of seconds – and yet defines what we eat. The stomach, intestines, and the rest of the digestive system that have to separate the good from the bad, and deal with all that enters the mouth, have little to no say in what we eat.
We live our life in a similar fashion. Fleeting impressions often shape our life rather than well-thought out and understood actions. We rarely, if ever pause to understand that what looks good from a distance may in fact be extremely dangerous to us.
So here is a clarion call to slow down, deliberate more and put more thought into our everyday decisions.