{"id":335,"date":"2011-02-19T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=335"},"modified":"2011-02-19T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T12:32:14","slug":"ego-destroys-existence-%e2%80%93-humility-fosters-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/ego-destroys-existence-%e2%80%93-humility-fosters-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego destroys existence \u2013 humility fosters life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSelf importance is our greatest enemy\u2026.our self importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2013Carlos Castaneda<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n???? ??? ?? ???? ???, ??? ??? ? ???? |<br \/>\n??? ???? ?????? ???, ??? ??? ?? ???? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Maya taja to kya hua, maan taja na jaaye |<br \/>\nMaan bade munivar taje, maan saban ko khaye ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Giving up wealth takes little effort , but nigh impossible it is to give up ego |<br \/>\nEgo has reduced the greatest and enlightened to ordinary, no one is immune to it\u2019s charms ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a race, one of the greatest facets of being human is our ability to recognize, celebrate and thrive in our diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Ego, on the other hand uses differences to drive separation and distance me from everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Ego has made a politician of the statesman, a soldier of the general, an ordinary man of the enlightened.<\/p>\n<p>Ego has no redeeming quality for a good life \u2013 for it uses our good energy to amplify and feed the negative side.<\/p>\n<p>Give up ego, and stay on watch \u2013 for it will always lurk just around the corner, in range and always ready to pounce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSelf importance is our greatest enemy\u2026.our self importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.\u201d \u2013Carlos Castaneda Kabir &#8211; The couplet ???? ??? ?? ???? ???, ??? ??? ? ???? | ??? ???? ?????? ???, ??? ??? ?? ???? || transliterated: Maya taja to kya hua, maan taja na jaaye |&#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-335","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\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}