{"id":507,"date":"2015-01-18T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=507"},"modified":"2015-01-18T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T02:17:39","slug":"forced-change-does-not-always-provide-desired-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/forced-change-does-not-always-provide-desired-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced change does not always provide desired results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man&#8217;s character, give him power.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u092c\u0939\u0941\u0924 \u0926\u093f\u0935\u0938 \u0924\u0947 \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e, \u0938\u0941\u0928\u093f\u090f \u0938\u092e\u093e\u0927\u093f \u0932\u093e\u0917\u0948 \u0964 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u092a\u093e\u0930\u093e \u0917\u0922\u093c \u092e\u0947\u0902, \u0926\u0941\u0930\u0940 \u092a\u093e\u0930\u093e \u092a\u091b\u0924\u093e\u090f <\/strong><strong>||<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>transliterated:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nBahut diwas te hindiya, suniye Samadhi laagai|<br \/>\nKarha paara gadh mein, doori paara pachtaaye||<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>Translation:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThe hatha yogi tries to find bliss in forced silence over long periods of time |<br \/>\nBut like the rabbit that falls into a hole, they lay fallen and exhausted and far from their goal ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My understanding:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWe often look to emulate the stated methods of others in the hope of achieving their expected goals.<\/p>\n<p>What we discount in that act is that we have not fully done the required preparation work to get ready to walk the suggested path. Without that preparation, the path, no matter how bountiful, will not reveal its bounty to us \u2013 or we are too busy looking elsewhere and miss the offered gifts.<\/p>\n<p>To find bliss, do not pressurize the body, but follow its subtle cues to comfortably allow it to stay calm and allow you to look within and find the real untarnished you.<\/p>\n<p>All other effort will (mostly) result in vain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man&#8217;s character, give him power.\u201d &#8211; Abraham Lincoln \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u092c\u0939\u0941\u0924 \u0926\u093f\u0935\u0938 \u0924\u0947 \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e, \u0938\u0941\u0928\u093f\u090f \u0938\u092e\u093e\u0927\u093f \u0932\u093e\u0917\u0948 \u0964 \u0915\u0930\u0939\u093e \u092a\u093e\u0930\u093e \u0917\u0922\u093c \u092e\u0947\u0902, \u0926\u0941\u0930\u0940 \u092a\u093e\u0930\u093e \u092a\u091b\u0924\u093e\u090f || \u00a0 transliterated: Bahut diwas te hindiya, suniye Samadhi laagai| Karha paara gadh mein,&#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-507","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\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}