{"id":474,"date":"2015-01-04T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=474"},"modified":"2015-01-04T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T14:26:09","slug":"all-the-time-in-the-world-is-ours-to-use-or-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/all-the-time-in-the-world-is-ours-to-use-or-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"All the time in the world is ours \u2013 to use, or lose!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that&#8217;s the stuff life is made of.<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Benjamin Franklin<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cI have only just a minute, only sixty seconds in it<br \/>\nForced upon me, can\u2019t refuse it<br \/>\nDid not seek it, did not choose it,<br \/>\nBut it is up to me to use it,<br \/>\nI must suffer if I loose it,<br \/>\nOnly just a tiny minute,<br \/>\nBut ETERNITY is in it!\u201d<br \/>\n<em>-Unknown<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><br \/>\n\u0915\u091a\u094d\u091b\u0940 \u0915\u093e\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0928 \u0905\u0925\u093f\u0930, \u0925\u093f\u0930 \u0925\u093f\u0930 \u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u0930\u0924 \u0964<br \/>\n\u091c\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u091c\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u0928\u0930 \u0928\u093f\u0927\u0926\u0915 \u092b\u093f\u0930\u0947 , \u0924\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u0924\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u0938\u0924 \u0965<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transliterated:<\/em><br \/>\nKacchhi kaaya man athir, thir thir kaam karat|<br \/>\nJyon jyon nar nidhadak phire, tyon tyon kaal hasat||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation:<\/em><br \/>\nThe body is like an unbaked pot, and restless is the mind (in it)|<br \/>\nThis man is action-less faced by worldly fears, while inexorable time watches and chuckles||<\/p>\n<p><em>My understanding:<\/em><br \/>\nTime \u2013 a one way street, with no looking back, and moving at just one pace \u2013 one inevitable step after another. No break, no pause, not even a stop to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>And I, the traveller, in ignorance, have made a art of the ability to ignore, postpone, and even deny the existence of time (except as an abstract thought for later consideration at an appropriate time?).<\/p>\n<p>While time watches on, and smiles at my stupidity, I claim mastery over my existence, which only time owns.<\/p>\n<p>So I need to stop, perish this folly, and fully accept that this physical life is temporal, and that I have already burned through a considerable portion of it in the pursuit of ephemerals. Let me now focus on understanding its purpose, meaning and teachings, so that I am ready for what comes after. For each phase of existence is but a preparatory school for what is to come next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that&#8217;s the stuff life is made of. &#8211; Benjamin Franklin \u00a0 \u201cI have only just a minute, only sixty seconds in it Forced upon me, can\u2019t refuse it Did not seek it, did not choose it, But it is up to me to use it,&#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-474","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\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}