“It means bondage when the mind desires something or grieves at something, rejects or accepts anything, feels happy or angry with anything.”
\n– Ashtavakra Gita – Chapter 8 Verse 1<\/p>\n
..and now, Kabir Day 28:<\/strong><\/p>\n The couplet transliterated: Translation: My understanding:<\/em><\/p>\n James Shirley says it wonderfully in his poem “Death The Leveller”: Unhappiness is a familiar state of mind for most humans – some even get unhappy when they have nothing to get unhappy about – for they worry that the next moment will bring great unhappiness.<\/p>\n There is infinite wisdom in the fact that true happiness lies in the truly small things – the morning sun, the ice on the roof, the grass under the frost, the twinkling star in a dark sky, the smile on a child’s face, the twinkle in a spouse’s or friend’s eye.<\/p>\n Find that happiness, and prosper – for it takes little to truly smile, but that smile is enough to light up the whole world in its radiance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It means bondage when the mind desires something or grieves at something, rejects or accepts anything, feels happy or angry with anything.” – Ashtavakra Gita – Chapter 8 Verse 1 ..and now, Kabir Day 28: The couplet transliterated: Bhoop dukhi avadhoot dukhi, dukhi runk bipreet| Kahe Kabir Yeh sub dukhi, sukhi sant man jeet ||…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabir","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em> Bhoop dukhi avadhoot dukhi, dukhi runk bipreet|
\nKahe Kabir Yeh sub dukhi, sukhi sant man jeet ||<\/p>\n
\n<\/em> Unhappy are the king and the learned, even the beggar lives unhappy |
\nSays Kabir, amongst all, only the saint in control of his mind is happy ||<\/p>\n
\n“The glories of our blood and state
\nAre shadows, not substantial things;
\nThere is no armour against Fate;
\nDeath lays his icy hand on kings:
\nSceptre and Crown
\nMust tumble down,
\nAnd in the dust be equal made
\nWith the poor crook\u00e8d scythe and spade.”<\/p>\n