{"id":391,"date":"2011-04-22T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-04-22T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:52:00","slug":"the-village-achieves-that-which-a-single-man-could-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/the-village-achieves-that-which-a-single-man-could-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The village achieves that which a single man could not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Aristotle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n???? ???? ??? ??, ?? ??? ???? ??? |<br \/>\n?? ???? ???? ???, ?? ??? ??? ? ??? ||<\/p>\n<p><strong>transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>\nKala nala heen jal, so phir paani hoye|<br \/>\nJo paani moti bane, so phir neer na hoye||<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>\nEven the dark waters of a dirty drain, filtered by nature, become the clear waters of a river |<br \/>\nBut that water which has been absorbed to become a pearl, does not go back to being water ever again||<\/p>\n<p><strong>My thoughts:<\/strong><br \/>\nLife is the filter, cleanser, and the mirror, which helps us wash of the grime of each day to emerge as a new person at each dawn. Having been put through the furnace of my experiences yesterday, I have emerged today as a little less carbon and a little more diamond. Each day, while I am still human, I need to use this furnace to cleanse myself of deadweight and better expose the light inside me that is bursting to see daylight.<\/p>\n<p>Experience is the process that makes us a pearl \u2013 and once made, we cannot go back to being the inexperienced person we were before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.\u201d &#8211; Aristotle Kabir &#8211; The couplet ???? ???? ??? ??, ?? ??? ???? ??? | ?? ???? ???? ???, ?? ??? ??? ? ??? || transliterated: Kala nala heen jal, so phir paani hoye| Jo paani moti bane, so phir neer na hoye|| Translation: Even&#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-391","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\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}