{"id":505,"date":"2015-01-17T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=505"},"modified":"2015-01-17T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:45:44","slug":"our-habits-and-instincts-are-the-cause-for-our-success-or-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/our-habits-and-instincts-are-the-cause-for-our-success-or-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Our habits and instincts are the cause for our success or failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHaving a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.\u201d
\n– Bobbe Sommer<\/em>
\n\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\n Kabir – The couplet<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u092c\u0928 \u0924\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0917\u093e \u092c\u093f\u0939\u0921\u093c\u0947 \u092a\u0930\u093e, \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0940 \u092c\u0928 \u0964
\n\u092c\u0947\u0926\u0928 \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u0915\u0938\u094b \u0915\u0939\u0948, \u0915\u094b \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u0915\u094b \u091c\u093e\u0928 ||
\n<\/em>
\ntransliterated:<\/em><\/strong>
\nBan te bhaga bihade paraa, karhaa apni ban|
\nBedan karha kaso kahai, ko karhaa ko jaan||
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nTranslation:<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe rabbit, as per its nature, runs from bush to bush, and falls into inescapable traps|
\nOnce in the trap, who can it lament to, who will listen to it\u2019s woes? ||<\/p>\n

My understanding:<\/em><\/strong>
\nGiancomo Casanova said \u201cBe the flame, not the moth\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, humanity has largely succumbed to the trend of \u201cfollowing the Joneses\u201d \u2013 we mimic those who we deem successful, and expect to find and improve on their achievements ourselves.<\/p>\n

The first mistake \u2013 our calling them successful based on external view. The second is the lack of recognition of the effort that got them there. The third is the presumption that we can exactly trace the very same path over the same or similar period of time \u2013 and improve by compressing time.<\/p>\n

By the time we fully recognize our folly, we have burned through much of the time this life has granted us, and do not have the time, the energy, the enthusiasm or the vim to find our own path. We then turn to blame our failure on everything else, from circumstance to fate to bad timing. But those we are complaining to have complaints of their own, and do not have the time or patience to genuinely pay attention to our woes or offer sincere advice.<\/p>\n

Hence the guidance to find the right teacher, find the teacher when young, and then follow the prescribed path without superimposing the instinctual direction of desire on the prescription.<\/p>\n

Only by staying true to this remedy, from this moment onwards, irrespective of age, status or ability, can we truly find success and happiness in this life and for ever afterwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHaving a low opinion of yourself is not ‘modesty.’ It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.\u201d – Bobbe Sommer \u00a0 Kabir – The couplet \u092c\u0928 \u0924\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0917\u093e \u092c\u093f\u0939\u0921\u093c\u0947 \u092a\u0930\u093e, \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u0905\u092a\u0928\u0940 \u092c\u0928 \u0964 \u092c\u0947\u0926\u0928 \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u0915\u0938\u094b \u0915\u0939\u0948, \u0915\u094b \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u0915\u094b \u091c\u093e\u0928 || transliterated:…<\/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-505","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\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}