{"id":700,"date":"2023-03-30T20:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=700"},"modified":"2023-03-30T20:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:31:05","slug":"this-human-life-is-a-priceless-gift-make-the-most-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/this-human-life-is-a-priceless-gift-make-the-most-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>This human life is a priceless gift \u2013 make the most of it!<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.\u201d<br \/><em>-Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><br \/><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Kabir &#8211; The couplet<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u0930\u093e\u0924\u00a0\u0917\u0902\u0935\u093e\u0908\u00a0\u0938\u094b\u092f\u00a0\u0915\u0947,\u00a0\u0926\u093f\u0935\u0938\u00a0\u0917\u0902\u0935\u093e\u092f\u093e\u00a0\u0916\u093e\u092f\u00a0|<br \/>\u0939\u0940\u0930\u093e\u00a0\u091c\u0928\u094d\u092e\u00a0\u0905\u092e\u094b\u0932\u00a0\u0938\u093e,\u00a0\u0915\u094b\u0921\u093c\u0940\u00a0\u092c\u0926\u0932\u0947\u00a0\u091c\u093e\u092f\u00a0||<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Transliterated:<\/strong><br \/>Raat gawai soye ke, diwas gawaya khaay\u00a0\u00a0|<br \/>Heera janam Anmol saa, koi badale jai ||<br \/><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Translation:<\/strong><br \/>Says Kabir \u2013 you spend your nights asleep, your days in pursuit of food |<br \/>This life is a precious gift; awake and change \u2013 make your life useful ||<br \/><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>My understanding:<br \/>Our daily life, focused on ourselves, makes daily living seem like a routine drudgery \u2013 we do the same things day in and day out but expect various different results and improvements daily.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So \u2013 how do we get something different? By changing \u2013 by doing, by being different. Kabir exhorts all to understand and appreciate the priceless gift that human life truly is \u2013 and to take advantage of the gift rather than fritter it away on the mundane. Emerson also picks up on this \u2013 we want to be happy when we need to be much more. Life is not about me or for me \u2013 I am for life \u2013 to help, serve, and leave the world a better place every single moment I take a breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So try, strive, and be that continuously better human being \u2013 every moment of life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.\u201d-Ralph Waldo Emerson\u00a0Kabir &#8211; The couplet\u0930\u093e\u0924\u00a0\u0917\u0902\u0935\u093e\u0908\u00a0\u0938\u094b\u092f\u00a0\u0915\u0947,\u00a0\u0926\u093f\u0935\u0938\u00a0\u0917\u0902\u0935\u093e\u092f\u093e\u00a0\u0916\u093e\u092f\u00a0|\u0939\u0940\u0930\u093e\u00a0\u091c\u0928\u094d\u092e\u00a0\u0905\u092e\u094b\u0932\u00a0\u0938\u093e,\u00a0\u0915\u094b\u0921\u093c\u0940\u00a0\u092c\u0926\u0932\u0947\u00a0\u091c\u093e\u092f\u00a0||\u00a0Transliterated:Raat gawai soye ke, diwas gawaya khaay\u00a0\u00a0|Heera janam Anmol saa, koi badale jai ||\u00a0Translation:Says Kabir \u2013 you spend&#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-700","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\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}