Today’s quote:<\/p>\n
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I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face…I say to myself, I’ve lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along.<\/p>\n
-Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>\n
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Day 2 from Sant Kabir:<\/p>\n
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Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya Koye Jo Mann Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye<\/p>\n
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Translation<\/p>\n
I searched for the crooked, met not a single one When I searched within myself, “I” found the crooked one<\/p>\n
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An explanation<\/p>\n
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This couplet deals with our perception, behavior and tendencies. It has been invariably noticed that we tend to find fault with someone else for our<\/p>\n
situations and circumstances.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Our “I”, the ego, always tries to put blame<\/p>\n on others.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Non-awareness of our own self is the cause of this attitude.<\/p>\n Resultantly, we find ourselves being busy in criticizing and condemning others and conveniently term them as crooked or evil.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n So Kabir says that instead of finding fault and maligning others, dive deep into your own-self.\u00a0 <\/span>Amazingly, an honest introspection will reveal that all fault lies with “me” and “my” own perceptions and attitudes. If there is any evil or crookedness, it is in “me”.\u00a0 <\/span>Correcting this and opting for a loving and compassionate attitude will change one’s perceptions and the world will appear wonderful all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s quote: \u00a0 I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face…I say to myself, I’ve lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. -Eleanor Roosevelt \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 2 from Sant Kabir: \u00a0 Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura…<\/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-32","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\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}