{"id":478,"date":"2015-01-05T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T02:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=478"},"modified":"2015-01-05T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T02:19:46","slug":"words-are-a-poor-substitute-for-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/words-are-a-poor-substitute-for-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Words are a poor substitute for experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re in love when nobody can understand the way you feel.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>-Unknown<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><br \/>\n\u0905\u0915\u0925 \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092e \u0915\u0940, \u0915\u0939\u0924 \u0915\u0939\u0940 \u0928 \u091c\u093e\u090f \u0964<br \/>\n\u0917\u0942\u0902\u0917\u0947 \u0915\u0947\u0930\u0940 \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930, \u0916\u093e\u090f \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0915\u093e\u090f \u0965<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transliterated:<\/em><br \/>\nAkath kahani prem ki, kahat kahi na jaye|<br \/>\nGoonge keri sarkara, khaye aur muskaye||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation:<\/em><br \/>\nThe story of God&#8217;s love is indescribable. No description is befitting|<br \/>\nJust as the dumb person, having eaten candy, smiles in joy but cannot describe it ||<\/p>\n<p><em>My understanding:<\/em><br \/>\nSome emotions have to be experienced to be understood. No one can understand the pain of childbirth, far less explain the look of transcendent joy on the mother\u2019s face on first contact with the newborn, despite the ordeal just completed.<\/p>\n<p>No words can completely describe the emotions running through a marathon runner\u2019s mind on having completed the run \u2013 or fully explain the look of achievement on the face atop a completely drained body.<\/p>\n<p>When we cannot find words for emotions and experiences we humans see repeatedly in our life, how can we expect to find words to describe the union, meeting and communion with that energy that no physical senses can sense? For our words limit their story to the more basic of the physical world\u2019s experience, no more.<\/p>\n<p>Try to read not much into the story of other\u2019s experience, and find similitude \u2013 look rather to create your own experience so you may truly understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re in love when nobody can understand the way you feel.&#8221; -Unknown \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u0905\u0915\u0925 \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092e \u0915\u0940, \u0915\u0939\u0924 \u0915\u0939\u0940 \u0928 \u091c\u093e\u090f \u0964 \u0917\u0942\u0902\u0917\u0947 \u0915\u0947\u0930\u0940 \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930, \u0916\u093e\u090f \u0914\u0930 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u094d\u0915\u093e\u090f \u0965 \u00a0 transliterated: Akath kahani prem ki, kahat kahi na jaye| Goonge keri sarkara, khaye aur muskaye|| \u00a0 Translation: The story of God&#8217;s&#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-478","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\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}