{"id":494,"date":"2015-01-12T18:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T23:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=494"},"modified":"2015-01-12T18:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T23:26:55","slug":"it-is-our-choices-that-show-what-we-truly-are-far-more-than-our-abilities-j-k-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/it-is-our-choices-that-show-what-we-truly-are-far-more-than-our-abilities-j-k-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.\u201d \u2014J.K. Rowling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou were born an original. Don\u2019t die a copy. \u201c<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; John Mason<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><br \/>\n\u0906\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e \u0915\u093f\u0938 \u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u094b, \u0924\u0942 \u0938\u094b\u092f\u093e \u091a\u093e\u0926\u0930 \u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0964<br \/>\n\u0938\u0942\u0930\u0924 \u0938\u0902\u092d\u093e\u0932 \u0910 \u0917\u093c\u093e\u092b\u093c\u093f\u0932, \u0905\u092a\u0928\u093e \u0906\u092a \u092a\u0947\u0939\u091a\u093e\u0928\u0965<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transliterated:<\/em><br \/>\nAaya tha kis kaam ko, tu soya chaadar taan|<br \/>\nSurat sambhaal ai gaafil, apna aap pehchaan||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation:<\/em><br \/>\nFor what purpose did you arrive, now you are all bundled up and asleep? |<br \/>\nRecognize yourself, fool, (before time really runs out) ||<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>My understanding:<\/em><br \/>\nWe arrive in this world as a child, with no baggage. But we promptly start accumulating weight, shells, and covers till the original me is completely hidden, covered and soon forgotten \u2013 under the false exterior.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThese covers take the form of aspirations of parents, expectations of society, desire-driven aspirations of the self based on input from the physical senses, our presumptions of the world\u2019s expectations of us, our own conceptions of what might make us more acceptable, and sheer laziness \u2013 it is always easier to take the softer option, and blame failure on anything except the self.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nVery soon, we begin to truly believe that the presented exterior is the real self, and we begin to live out that created role with the belief that that is our true calling in the theater of life.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOnly at the time of death, when all of the accumulated accouterments wither and fall off, do we once again see the real self \u2013 but by then, the body is bereft of vim and energy and time, and can do little to help the self attain it\u2019s purpose for this round.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo the master is asking us to abandon these false shells of fake identities, and to become what we are meant to be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou were born an original. Don\u2019t die a copy. \u201c &#8211; John Mason \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u0906\u092f\u093e \u0925\u093e \u0915\u093f\u0938 \u0915\u093e\u092e \u0915\u094b, \u0924\u0942 \u0938\u094b\u092f\u093e \u091a\u093e\u0926\u0930 \u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0964 \u0938\u0942\u0930\u0924 \u0938\u0902\u092d\u093e\u0932 \u0910 \u0917\u093c\u093e\u092b\u093c\u093f\u0932, \u0905\u092a\u0928\u093e \u0906\u092a \u092a\u0947\u0939\u091a\u093e\u0928\u0965 \u00a0 transliterated: Aaya tha kis kaam ko, tu soya chaadar taan| Surat sambhaal ai gaafil, apna aap pehchaan|| \u00a0 Translation:&#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-494","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\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}