{"id":350,"date":"2011-03-04T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-03-04T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:24:10","slug":"the-secret-of-receiving-is-in-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/the-secret-of-receiving-is-in-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret of receiving is in giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe giving of wealth results in obtaining wealth, the giving of teaching results in obtaining wisdom, the giving of fearlessness results in obtaining health and long life.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211;<em>Buddhist teaching<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n??????? ???? ?? ?? ???, ??? ?? ????? ? ??? |<br \/>\n??? ??? ?? ? ???, ?? ??? ??? ???? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>\nChidiya chonch bhar le gayi, nadi ka ghatyo na neer |<br \/>\nDaan diye dhan na ghate, keh gayo daas Kabir ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe beakful of water the bird takes, makes no difference to the river\u2019s volume |<br \/>\nDonations do not reduce one\u2019s wealth, so says Sage Kabir||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giving is the best way or receiving and retaining \u2013 no matter what we are talking about. Wealth, knowledge, peace, and harmony \u2013 even the negatives like anger, jealousy and pride \u2013 all increase for us as we learn to give and share.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the greatest truths and yet most humans stay blinded to it by the mists of maya. This is just like a bank \u2013 until we put some money away, we do not have a balance to draw from. Unless the balance stays there for a while, it will not grow with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly for our wealth, knowledge, peace and tranquility \u2013 the more we give, the more we are banking for our future use. For when the moment of adversity arrives, this is the only fund we can draw from. The material world cannot replenish the mind, heart or soul. Our collected deeds, goodwill and love will be our steadying oar when all else is lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe giving of wealth results in obtaining wealth, the giving of teaching results in obtaining wisdom, the giving of fearlessness results in obtaining health and long life.\u201d &#8211;Buddhist teaching Kabir &#8211; The couplet ??????? ???? ?? ?? ???, ??? ?? ????? ? ??? | ??? ??? ?? ? ???, ?? ??? ??? ???? || transliterated:&#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-350","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\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}