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On this windy, sunny morning, all I can think of is :<\/p>\n
“Remember that life’s most treasured moments often come unannounced.”
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..and now, Kabir Day 17:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n The couplet, transliterated:<\/p>\n \n Nau man dudh batori kai, tipaka diya binas | Translation:<\/em><\/p>\n \n Nine maunds (a measure) of pure milk, a drop of acid can spoil | \n My understanding:<\/em><\/p>\n A large quantity of good milk can be spoilt by just a single drop of acid. Allegorically, Kabir is telling us here that a single bad moment can destroy a lifelong record of good deeds and noble behavior.<\/p>\n Through this little couplet, Kabir is warning us to be ever-watchful for those tiny moments that can prove to be our undoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On this windy, sunny morning, all I can think of is : “Remember that life’s most treasured moments often come unannounced.” -unknown ..and now, Kabir Day 17: The couplet, transliterated: Nau man dudh batori kai, tipaka diya binas | Dudh fati kanji bhaya, hua dhiyu ka naas|| Translation: Nine maunds (a measure) of pure milk,…<\/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-78","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\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDudh fati kanji bhaya, hua dhiyu ka naas||<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe milk splits and its essence is lost no matter how much you toil ||<\/p>\n