{"id":97,"date":"2009-01-05T07:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-01-05T07:08:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:08:13","slug":"kabir-day-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/kabir-day-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabir day 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>Today\u2019s thought:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">&#8211;<em>Helen Keller<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>And now, Kabir, day 21:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><em>The couplet, transliterated:<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>Kabira jogi manhi ke, tan jogi kou aur,<\/strong><span><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><strong>|<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>Man ke jog lagawat, dasa bhai kachoo aur ||\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><em>Translation:<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>Kabir is an ascetic of the mind, not of the body |<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><strong>If all did the same, their lot would be so much better ||<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><em>My understanding:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">Kabir here is speaking of the relation between mind and body. Most philosophies and thinkers seem to point to the mind as a guest of the body, or as a dress to be worn at birth and discarded at death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">The average human gets so caught up in taking care of the body that the entire mind&#8217;s energies are devoted to the one task. If instead of the mind taking care of the body, the body were put to the task of serving the mind in it&#8217;s true endeavor of completing life&#8217;s tasks, humanity would be better served &#8211; both the individual and all society would be the benefactors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Today\u2019s thought: The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. &#8211;Helen Keller\u00a0 And now, Kabir, day 21: The couplet, transliterated:\u00a0 Kabira jogi manhi ke, tan jogi kou aur,\u00a0 | Man ke jog lagawat, dasa bhai kachoo&#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-97","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\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/mani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}