{"id":348,"date":"2011-03-02T10:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=348"},"modified":"2011-03-02T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:57:49","slug":"an-old-couplet-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/an-old-couplet-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"An old couplet &#8211; revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>-unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n???? ??? ??? ?? ???, ????? ?? ? ??? |<br \/>\n??? ????? ????? ??, ???? ?? ????? ??? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>\nPothi padh padh jag mua, pandit bhaya na koi |<br \/>\nDhai akshar prem se, padhe so pandit hoye ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>\nReading all the books of the world, has not made a scholar ever |<br \/>\nA word spoken with love, has allown one to gain real wisdom||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am revisiting an old favorite couplet \u2013 but going a few layers deeper (at least to my  perspective).<\/p>\n<p>Knowledge is not the true path to wisdom \u2013 knowledge only fills us up with facts and information. Love allows us to empathise, and hence leads to compassion. When we practice compassion, we gain an understanding \u2013 why the flower flower, why a child cries, why our friend frowns. This compassion allows us to share our own being and become part of the solution rather than create a new problem.<\/p>\n<p>That, then, leads to true wisdom. Love creates empathy, which generates compassion, and compassion generates understanding , which is the soul of real wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>So the sage Kabir has once again proved his intense depth \u2013 there is more hidden in this simple couplet than all the riches of the legendary Atlantis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.\u201d -unknown Kabir &#8211; The couplet ???? ??? ??? ?? ???, ????? ?? ? ??? | ??? ????? ????? ??, ???? ?? ????? ???&#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-348","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\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}