{"id":341,"date":"2011-02-21T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-02-21T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:16:32","slug":"learn-from-yesterday-%e2%80%93-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/learn-from-yesterday-%e2%80%93-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn from yesterday \u2013 the world is a beautiful place ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow that it&#8217;s all over, what did you really do yesterday that&#8217;s worth mentioning? \u201c<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Coleman Cox<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<br \/>\n<\/strong>???? ???? ?????????, ???? ?????? ???? |<br \/>\n???? ?????? ??? ??? ??, ?????? ?? ??? ??? ?? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sheetal shabd ucchhariye, aham maaniye naahi |<br \/>\nTera preetam tujh mein hai, dushman bhi tujh mein hai ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Our words need to be soothing, completely absent of ego |<br \/>\nFor all our love is inside of us, as also our enemies, our negativity||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We often hear the statement \u201chindsight is 20-20\u201d. As the first quote on the top says, think back to the events and activities of yesterday. How many of them, on review, were worth the angst and heartache you put yourself through while in the moment?<\/p>\n<p>Life is such \u2013 we presume the worst even while hoping for the best, and then agonize ourselves and all around us in the worry that we did not take more into consideration when figuring out the worst \u2013 we KNOW that the worst is far greater than what we dream of ?<\/p>\n<p>And then the moment passes, and all is well. Even the worst is not really a bad world. All it really needed was a moment of quiet introspection and a smile \u2013 both of which we are not ready to give at the apt moment.<\/p>\n<p>So, please \u2013 stop, think, and spread only love. Life is very very beautiful, and the world is here to please us, make us happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow that it&#8217;s all over, what did you really do yesterday that&#8217;s worth mentioning? \u201c &#8211; Coleman Cox Kabir &#8211; The couplet ???? ???? ?????????, ???? ?????? ???? | ???? ?????? ??? ??? ??, ?????? ?? ??? ??? ?? || transliterated: Sheetal shabd ucchhariye, aham maaniye naahi | Tera preetam tujh mein hai, dushman bhi&#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-341","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\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}