{"id":131,"date":"2009-01-26T06:19:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T11:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-01-26T06:19:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T11:19:51","slug":"kabir-day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/kabir-day-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabir Day 33"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s quote:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there –<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

buried under the 50,000 thoughts<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the average person thinks every day.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

– Deepak Chopra<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And now, Kabir Day 33:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The couplet, transliterated:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bin vaasilai chakiri, bin buddhi ki deh |<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bina gyan ka jogna, phirai lagaye kheh ||<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Translation:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like working without compensation, or a body without intellect |<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The ‘ascetic’ without wisdom, roams with ash on his body ||<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My understanding:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

True wisdom comes from true realization – the understanding of the core of our existence. Talk does not make one wise, nor do external accoutrements. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0 And now, Kabir Day 33: \u00a0 The couplet, transliterated: Bin vaasilai chakiri, bin buddhi…<\/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-131","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\/131","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=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}