{"id":459,"date":"2014-07-08T10:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=459"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:49:53","slug":"everything-in-moderation-nothing-in-excess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/everything-in-moderation-nothing-in-excess\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything in moderation, nothing in excess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExcessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<em>William Blake<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u093e \u092d\u0932\u093e \u0928\u093e \u092c\u094b\u0932\u0928\u093e, \u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u0932\u0940 \u0928\u093e \u091a\u0942\u092a |<br \/>\n\u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u093e \u092d\u0932\u093e \u0928\u093e \u092c\u0930\u0938\u0928\u093e, \u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u0932\u0940 \u0928\u093e \u0927\u0942\u092a ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>transliterated:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ati ka bhala naa bolna, ati ki bhali na choop |<br \/>\nAti ka bhala naa barasna, ati ki bhali na dhoop ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Translation:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not advisable to talk too much, but neither is too much silence good|<br \/>\nJust as too much sun and dry is no good, nor is the continuous downpour ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My thoughts:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We learn a little, and convince ourselves that we know it all.\u00a0 We develop the proverbial diarrhea of words, accompanied by the complete constipation of thought and reason. At some point however, we run out of steam, and stop to take a breath \u2013 and then finally hear the true foolishness of our words. At which point, we decide that this speaking is no good \u2013 and clam up, even when the need to express ourselves with clarity and brevity is pressing.<\/p>\n<p>Even after we recover from the lapse(s), we tend to oscillate between the extremes, rather than stay at the center, at the point where the forces of the world tend to assist us to stay calm. The same forces (gravity, centripetal and centrifugal forces, the laws of attraction and repulsion) that can help us stay centered and focused (when we force ourselves to be still), are the ones that, once motion begins, ensure that the motion becomes almost perpetual \u2013 and we provide the remaining impetus to make it so, in the absence of the ability to control and brake.<\/p>\n<p>So blame not the force \u2013 it will behave the way its natural law (dharma) dictates \u2013 turn the fire of the incriminating statement inwards, and use that energy to force the self to stillness. That state will ensure that we say enough \u2013 no more or less, at anytime, always an everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cExcessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.\u201d \u2015\u00a0William Blake Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u093e \u092d\u0932\u093e \u0928\u093e \u092c\u094b\u0932\u0928\u093e, \u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u0932\u0940 \u0928\u093e \u091a\u0942\u092a | \u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u093e \u092d\u0932\u093e \u0928\u093e \u092c\u0930\u0938\u0928\u093e, \u0905\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u0932\u0940 \u0928\u093e \u0927\u0942\u092a || transliterated: Ati ka bhala naa bolna, ati ki bhali na choop | Ati ka bhala naa barasna, ati ki bhali 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-459","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\/459","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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}