\u201cI don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.\u201d
\n– Diane Ackerman<\/p>\n
Kabir – The couplet<\/strong> transliterated:<\/strong> Translation:<\/strong> My understanding:<\/strong> However, there is deeper significance to it.<\/p>\n Every moment of life presents us with the opportunity for enormous gain \u2013 if we dive into the unknown risk supported only by our collected wealth of experience. The only way to see beyond is by scaling the peaks in front of us.<\/p>\n More importantly, the exploration of the opportunity is a primary purpose, not a possible potential benefit of being born. We each have a responsibility to see further, learn more, dive deeper and gather more (riches of knowledge) than what is present in our world as it exists now.<\/p>\n That is the yardstick by which the great seer Kabir is asking us to measure ourselves by \u2013 that I made the effort to do more than I could every moment of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.\u201d – Diane Ackerman Kabir – The couplet ??? ????? ??? ????, ????? ???? ??? | ?? ???? ???? ???, ??? ?????? ???…<\/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-310","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\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n??? ????? ??? ????, ????? ???? ??? |
\n?? ???? ???? ???, ??? ?????? ??? ||<\/p>\n
\nJin dhunda tin payiya, gahire pani paith |
\nMai bauri duban dari, rahi kinare baith ||<\/p>\n
\nThe seeker found the sought, by diving into the deep |
\nApprehensive of the depth, I stayed safe on the shore ||<\/p>\n
\nOn the face of it, this is an extremely simple thought \u2013 no risk, no gain- and no loss!<\/p>\n