{"id":314,"date":"2011-01-24T12:53:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-01-24T12:53:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:53:29","slug":"conscience-is-still-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/conscience-is-still-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscience is still paramount!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you ever noticed how refreshingly fun it is to be around positive thinking people who seem to naturally maintain a positive attitude? No matter how bad the circumstances, negativity never even enters their minds, let alone crosses their lips to form negative, faithless words!\u201d<br \/>\n<em>&#8211;\tPositive Attitude Tips \u2013 by Karen Wolf<br \/>\nabout.com \u2013 http:\/\/christianity.about.com\/od\/practicaltools\/a\/positivethinkin.htm<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<br \/>\n<\/strong>????? ???? ???? ??, ???? ?? ?? ????? |<br \/>\n???? ??? ????? ???, ?? ??? ???? ????? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Chandan jaisa sadhu hai, sarp hi sab sansar |<br \/>\nTaake ang lipta rahe, man mein nahi vikar ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The realized person is like the sandal tree, the rest of the world a snake |<br \/>\nThough the snake wraps itself around the tree, the tree loses not its scent or become poisonous ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, more than ever before in history, the temptation to take the easy path, the quick pickings, the short-cut, the quick cheat, is all around us. Google is full of tips on the quick win.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is where the innate goodness of man and our desire to do things the right way wins, even now. While I will not say I have never taken shortcuts (I have, very often), I always stop short of doing that which is wrong \u2013 at least by my definition. That little voice, our conscience, is the sandal tree in the couplet above.<\/p>\n<p>The snake is my desire, my ambition, my jealousy. The snake is always with me \u2013 but so is my conscience. And I am happy to say that the conscience is alive, well and healthy!<\/p>\n<p>Every time we take that extra miniscule moment to listen to , pay attention to that voice in our head that we know is the conscience, the sandal tree keeps growing and flowering. Water it, feed it, and watch life prosper!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHave you ever noticed how refreshingly fun it is to be around positive thinking people who seem to naturally maintain a positive attitude? No matter how bad the circumstances, negativity never even enters their minds, let alone crosses their lips to form negative, faithless words!\u201d &#8211; Positive Attitude Tips \u2013 by Karen Wolf about.com \u2013&#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-314","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\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}