{"id":496,"date":"2015-01-13T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:18:12","slug":"god-teaches-us-to-give-love-we-teach-ourselves-to-get-love-give-and-be-rewarded-get-and-find-yourself-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/god-teaches-us-to-give-love-we-teach-ourselves-to-get-love-give-and-be-rewarded-get-and-find-yourself-discontent\/","title":{"rendered":"God teaches us to give love, we teach ourselves to get love. Give, and be rewarded. Get, and find yourself discontent."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose contented souls who meditate on the Lord with single-minded love, meet the True Lord.\u201c<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Guru Granth Sahib<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><br \/>\n\u0907\u0938 \u0924\u0928 \u0915\u093e \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0930\u094c, \u092c\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0932\u094d\u092f\u0941 \u091c\u093f\u0935 \u0964<br \/>\n\u0932\u094b\u0939\u0940 \u0938\u0940\u0902\u091a\u094b \u0924\u0947\u0932 \u091c\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902, \u0915\u092c \u092e\u0941\u0916 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0942 \u092a\u093f\u0935\u0965<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>transliterated:<\/em><br \/>\nIs tan ka diya karau, bati melyu jeev|<br \/>\nLohi seencho tel jyon, kab much milu piv||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Translation:<\/em><br \/>\nMake my body the lamp, my breath the wick that lights up |<br \/>\nMy blood is the oil to fuel it, when I will I find Love (God)? ||<\/p>\n<p><em>My understanding:<\/em><br \/>\nToday is the day of Bhogi \u2013 the day before Sankrathi, in the year 2015 AD.<\/p>\n<p>This is the day we symbolically discard our bad habits, our negativity and the useless accouterments we have accumulated in the morning bonfire and the dances.<\/p>\n<p>Today, let us also agree to give up expecting, and learn to give love instead.<\/p>\n<p>When we ask, we get what the other expects will make us happy \u2013 which is not what we want. We want to join the real person within \u2013 which will happen when we give of ourselves without reservation or expectation.<\/p>\n<p>When we give without holding back, what we find will be pure and truly joyous. For the reward is in the giving itself \u2013 no more is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose contented souls who meditate on the Lord with single-minded love, meet the True Lord.\u201c &#8211; Guru Granth Sahib \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u0907\u0938 \u0924\u0928 \u0915\u093e \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0930\u094c, \u092c\u093e\u0924\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0932\u094d\u092f\u0941 \u091c\u093f\u0935 \u0964 \u0932\u094b\u0939\u0940 \u0938\u0940\u0902\u091a\u094b \u0924\u0947\u0932 \u091c\u094d\u092f\u094b\u0902, \u0915\u092c \u092e\u0941\u0916 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0942 \u092a\u093f\u0935\u0965 \u00a0 transliterated: Is tan ka diya karau, bati melyu jeev| Lohi seencho tel jyon,&#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-496","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\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}