{"id":627,"date":"2015-03-31T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=627"},"modified":"2015-03-31T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:05:21","slug":"the-only-way-to-successfully-pass-the-exam-of-life-is-to-do-it-on-our-own-with-others-help-but-not-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/the-only-way-to-successfully-pass-the-exam-of-life-is-to-do-it-on-our-own-with-others-help-but-not-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The only way to successfully pass the exam of life is to do it on our own \u2013 with other\u2019s help, but not together!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/>\n\u0915\u092c\u0940\u0930 \u0907\u0938 \u0938\u0902\u0938\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u094b, \u0938\u092e\u091d\u094c \u0915\u0908 \u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0964<br \/>\n\u092a\u0942\u0901\u091b \u091c\u094b \u092a\u0915\u095c\u0947 \u092d\u0947\u095c \u0915\u0940, \u0909\u0924\u094d\u0930\u094d\u092f \u091a\u093e\u0939\u0947 \u092a\u093e\u0930 \u0965<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>\nKabir Is Sansaar Ko, Samjhau Kai Baar |<br \/>\nPoonch Jo Pakdai Bhed Ka, Utrya Chahai Paar\u00a0 ||<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>\nSays Kabir to the world, explaining over and over again|<br \/>\nYou cannot cross the ocean of life by holding onto a sheep\u2019s tail ||<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>My understanding:<\/strong><br \/>\nI have talked for a while about the self, overcoming desire, staying focused and working hard to realize the self. Here then, is another very important guideline to achieving Purushartha \u2013 the object of human life.<\/p>\n<p>Our ancient texts and teachers have told us of the four purusharthas \u2013 Dharma (righteousness), Artha (prosperity), Kama (pleasure) and Moksha (liberation). Consider any one of the four \u2013 to truly achieve it, we have to both stay focused and work towards the goal by ourselves, alone. What will work for me is unique to me, just sufficiently different from everyone else that I need to walk my own path, even as I study the path and methods of others so as not to repeat their mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>We have to participate in society so that we can both provide to the pool of accumulated knowledge and draw from that well as per our need. But we then need to take that learning, view it through the lens our Guru has shaped for us (that is unique again to each of us \u2013 so the lens, when shared, will misguide everyone else other than the one it is shaped for), and then follow the path that reveals itself to us without allowing distractions to lead us astray.<\/p>\n<p>When we develop that discipline, success is assured.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.\u201d -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow \u00a0 Kabir &#8211; The couplet&#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-627","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\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}