{"id":451,"date":"2013-03-15T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:30:51","slug":"act-with-purpose-else-waste-not-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/act-with-purpose-else-waste-not-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Act with purpose, else waste not time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vision\u00a0without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.<br \/>\n<i>&#8211; Joel Barker<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n\u0915\u092c\u0940\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0932\u093e \u0915\u093e\u0920 \u0915\u0940, \u0915\u0939\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u091d\u093e\u0935\u0947 \u0924\u094b\u0939\u093f \u0964<br \/>\n\u092e\u0928 \u0928 \u092b\u093f\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0947 \u0906\u092a\u0928\u093e, \u0915\u093e\u0939\u0947 \u092b\u093f\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0947 \u092e\u094b\u0939\u093f \u0964\u0964<\/p>\n<p><b><i>transliterated:<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nKabir maala kaath ki, kahi samjhaave tohi |<br \/>\nMan na firave aapna, kaahe firave mohi ||<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translation:<\/i><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Says Kabir, thus spoke the rosary of wooden beads |<br \/>\nYour mind does not want to move, why move me through your fingers?<\/p>\n<p><b><i>My thoughts:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>We hear this thought often \u2013 practice what you preach, do unto others what you would have them do to you, be like the blade of grass in the wind (supple, and yet and anchored), say not what you do not think right, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>We often pick up work based on our perception of the end result, without taking into consideration the effort that is required.<\/p>\n<p>Or we act without really putting in the effort to think through the purpose driving the act.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to meditate, we need to have the proper end goal. If we cannot take on the life of the monk, then we should stay away from attempts to practice their rigors. And if we want to practice their rigors, we have to agree to the accompanying change of lifestyle and taking on the world as our family J<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is wrong \u2013 unless the driving thought behind it is the wrong one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vision\u00a0without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. &#8211; Joel Barker Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u0915\u092c\u0940\u0930 \u092e\u093e\u0932\u093e \u0915\u093e\u0920 \u0915\u0940, \u0915\u0939\u0940 \u0938\u092e\u091d\u093e\u0935\u0947 \u0924\u094b\u0939\u093f \u0964 \u092e\u0928 \u0928 \u092b\u093f\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0947 \u0906\u092a\u0928\u093e, \u0915\u093e\u0939\u0947 \u092b\u093f\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0947 \u092e\u094b\u0939\u093f \u0964\u0964 transliterated: Kabir maala kaath ki, kahi samjhaave tohi | Man na&#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-451","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\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}