{"id":489,"date":"2015-01-10T20:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=489"},"modified":"2015-01-10T20:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:47:52","slug":"service-is-the-ultimate-god-i-can-present-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/service-is-the-ultimate-god-i-can-present-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Service is the ultimate God I can present to others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. \u201c<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Frederick Buechner<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><br \/>\n\u091a\u0932\u0940 \u091c\u094b \u092a\u0941\u0924\u0932\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0909\u0928\u0941 \u0915\u093f, \u0925\u093e\u0939 \u0938\u093f\u0902\u0927\u0941 \u0915\u093e \u0932\u0947\u0928 \u0964<br \/>\n\u0906\u092a\u0939\u0941 \u0917\u0932\u0940 \u092a\u093e\u0928\u0940 \u092d\u0908, \u0909\u0932\u091f\u0940 \u0915\u0939\u0947 \u0915\u094b \u092c\u0948\u0928 \u0965<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transliterated:<\/em><br \/>\nChali jo putli laun ki, thaah sindhu kaa len|<br \/>\nAaphu gali paani bhayi, ulti kahe ko bain||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation:<\/em><br \/>\nA doll of salt went out, to measure the ocean\u2019s depth |<br \/>\nIn the ocean, it dissolved (merged), who can put it back together again? ||<\/p>\n<p><em>My understanding:<\/em><br \/>\nTaking the thought of service to the next space \u2013 when we put our all into an action, we have no bandwidth to spare to think of or presume result. When our whole existence is focused on the act and not the result\/reaction, we have become the act. When this happens we are not the individual any longer, but the service itself.<\/p>\n<p>Fire exists to be used. We can choose to use it to cook food, warm ourselves or burn things down. It can be used to forge weapons, or build shelters.<\/p>\n<p>No one blames the fire or praises it \u2013 they just use or suffer the result.<\/p>\n<p>Service is the fire \u2013 light it and become the fire. It will find the appropriate use for itself.<\/p>\n<p>When we merge into service, we have become part of a much larger space. There, the old me has burned away, to be unavailable to forge or be recast any longer.<\/p>\n<p>For me, service is the greatest version of God I can present for the use of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. \u201c &#8211; Frederick Buechner \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u091a\u0932\u0940 \u091c\u094b \u092a\u0941\u0924\u0932\u0940 \u0932\u093e\u0909\u0928\u0941 \u0915\u093f, \u0925\u093e\u0939 \u0938\u093f\u0902\u0927\u0941 \u0915\u093e \u0932\u0947\u0928 \u0964 \u0906\u092a\u0939\u0941 \u0917\u0932\u0940&#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-489","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\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}