{"id":539,"date":"2015-02-01T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=539"},"modified":"2015-02-01T12:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:05:14","slug":"we-let-our-environment-shape-us-so-let-us-pick-the-right-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/we-let-our-environment-shape-us-so-let-us-pick-the-right-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"We let our environment shape us, so let us pick the right environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Winston Churchill<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u0915\u092c\u0940\u0930\u093e \u0915\u0932\u0939 \u0905\u0930\u0941 \u0915\u0932\u094d\u092a\u0928\u093e. \u0938\u0924 \u0938\u0902\u0917\u0924\u0940 \u0938\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u092f \u0964<br \/>\n\u0926\u0941\u0903\u0916 \u092c\u093e\u0938\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0917\u093e \u092b\u093f\u0930\u0948<strong>, <\/strong>\u0938\u0941\u0916 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u092f<strong>||<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Transliterated:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nKabira Kalah Aru Kalpana, Sat Sangati Se Jaay |<br \/>\nDukh Baase Bhaaga Phirai, Sukh Mein Rahai Samaay||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Translation:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nSays Kabir, conflict and (bad) imagination, will all vanish in the right company |<br \/>\nSorrow, pain, unpleasantness, all run away, the mind stays centered in peace ||<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My understanding:<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWe humans tend to mimic the space we are in \u2013 so goes the famous saying \u2013 \u201cWhen in Rome, be like a Roman\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>When we stand on our own, we rapidly try to \u201ccorrect\u201d the situation by looking for company. And then we succumb to the company\u2019s mode of behavior, instead of retaining our own while imbibing that which should be imbibed.<\/p>\n<p>As Churchill so aptly pointed out, we do sometimes even figure out the truth\/right often, but then promptly discard it because it mostly asks us to modify behavior from crowd norm.<\/p>\n<p>So, here, the message is, before we learn to fix our choices, let us pick the right environment. The right company will engender and deep-seat the right behavior. We are then better armed and ready to take on the larger world with lesser scope of compromising the self and succumbing to instinct. This can help us find that lasting peace and comfort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.&#8221; &#8211; Winston Churchill \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet \u0915\u092c\u0940\u0930\u093e \u0915\u0932\u0939 \u0905\u0930\u0941 \u0915\u0932\u094d\u092a\u0928\u093e. \u0938\u0924 \u0938\u0902\u0917\u0924\u0940 \u0938\u0947 \u091c\u093e\u092f \u0964 \u0926\u0941\u0903\u0916 \u092c\u093e\u0938\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0917\u093e \u092b\u093f\u0930\u0948, \u0938\u0941\u0916 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0930\u0939\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u092f|| Transliterated: Kabira Kalah Aru Kalpana, Sat Sangati Se Jaay&#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-539","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\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}