“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
– Stephen Covey

Kabir – The couplet
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transliterated:
Karta tha so kyon kiya, ab kare kyon pachtaye |
Boya ped babool ka, aam kahan te paaye ||

Translation:
Why did you do that which is done, and why cry after the deed |
Having sown seed of a date palm, the fruits will not be grapes ||

My understanding:

Very simple, this couplet and the thought. As you sow, so shall you reap. However, very profound too.

For each pin that pricks us in the course of our daily life, we often tend to blame fate, circumstance, and the great beyond for our suffering while taking all ownership of all pleasure and happiness and the causes thereof. Another pointer to the fickle nature of human ego and its fragile existence.

I am centrally responsible for all that happens to me and around me. And when I fully embrace this thought, life gains a rich new glow, purpose and meaning for me.