{"id":183,"date":"2009-08-21T00:58:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T05:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=183"},"modified":"2010-10-01T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:02:54","slug":"life-is-precious-%e2%80%93-not-ours-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/life-is-precious-%e2%80%93-not-ours-to-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is precious \u2013 not ours to waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love every day. Each one is so short and they are so few&#8221;.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Norman Vincent Peale<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-186\" title=\"Kabir-aug-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot_01a.jpg\" alt=\"Kabir-aug-21\" width=\"535\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot_01a.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-content\/uploads\/screenshot_01a-300x59.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>transliterated:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Durlabh manush janam hai, hoi na dooji baar |<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pakka fal jo gir pada, laage na dooji bar ||<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Translation:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Human life is difficult to achieve, and it is only one we get \u2013 no 2<sup>nd<\/sup> chance |<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Like the ripened fruit (once it falls ), no way to reattach it to the source of life ||<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>My understanding:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Life is a miracle. Life is a blessing. Life is something that needs to be enjoyed. A full life still seems short at the end of it all. We each have a lot to do, a lot to love, a lot more to achieve, and so very little time to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With so much opportunity all around us, is there really a need for any negativity? Not really \u2013 think it over ..<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Let us enjoy life, and teach those around us to enjoy the bounty that life is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Love every day. Each one is so short and they are so few&#8221;. &#8211; Norman Vincent Peale Kabir &#8211; The couplet transliterated: Durlabh manush janam hai, hoi na dooji baar | Pakka fal jo gir pada, laage na dooji bar || Translation: Human life is difficult to achieve, and it is only one we get&#8230;<\/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-183","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\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}