Aditya Shah

Bread

Breads are rich in complex carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are an important part of our diet as they provide us with energy.

Are you aware of your thoughts and the focus of what you are thinking about at any given time, or do you believe your thoughts are randomly occurring? Have you ever considered there is an energetic connection…[Read more]

Gyani yukti sunaiya,
ko suni karai vichar
Surdas ki istri,
ka par kare singar.

One should contemplate over what is said by a knowledgeable.
For whom would the wife of a blind decorate herself.

Kabir says that we go to enlighten person. But we never listen to him. We are listening with all kinds of prejudices, that is a wrong way of…[Read more]

Wire

Wire is a piece of thin metal thread that can be bent, used for fastening things and for making particular types of objects that are strong but can bend.

Luck is a very thin Wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

A well balanced life is essential for personal effectiveness, peace of mind…[Read more]

Nirjani so kahiye ka,
kahat Kabir lajay
Andhey aage nachte,
kala akarath jaye.

What should be said of an unknown, Kabir is shy in saying
Dancing before a blind, the art also becomes useless.

Why Kabir says I am shy in saying? Because everyone is interested in knowledge but not knowing. Knowledge means of objective world to know others…[Read more]

Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a mineral that makes up 1% of a person’s total body weight. It is the second most abundant mineral in the body. It is present in every cell of the body. Most of the phosphorus in the body is found in the bones and teeth.

How can we become present everywhere. The way is with our love. Noone will remember you as your…[Read more]

Nar Nari ke sookh ko,
khansi nahi pahichan
Tyon gyani ke sookh ko,
aagani nahi jan.

The pleasure of men and women, a eunuch can never understand.
So the pleasure of knowledge, a foolish can never know.

Kabir is saying that – Sex is not an ordinary thing. It is one of the most substantial parts of your being. One should not be so unalert…[Read more]

Almond

Almond are sweet and bitter.

Have you experienced person who is sweet in expression and bitter when he need to act are welcomed everywhere. Why?

As the person who is sweet and bitter knows how to love himself.

How do you love yourself?
You do so by investing in and working on your personal growth and development. You work on…[Read more]

Dooja hain to boliye,
dooja jhagra sohi.
Do andhon ke nach me
ka pai kako mohi.

If there are different Gods, then it can be said, this is root of all quarrels.
In the dance of two blinds, who will get lured or attracted to whom.

Kabir is speaking the difference between Religion and Religions.
The true religion can only be one, just like…[Read more]

Bud

Bud, Small lateral or terminal protuberance on the stem of a vascular plant that may develop into a flower, leaf, or shoot.

Bud is symbol of possibility and potentiality.

Growth never stops. With a life full of possibilities, you have the potential to keep building on your progress and laying the foundation for your best self. Even if…[Read more]

Tako lakshan ko kahai,
jako anubhav gyan
Sadh Asadh na dekhiye,
kyon kari karun bakhan.

How can I say the features of Him whose experience is the knowledge
He doesn’t differentiate as saint or wicked, how then can he be described.

Kabir is saying in this Doha for whom doing is knowing. They live their life from experience. One who l…[Read more]

Plate

Plate is empty. What we fill in empty plate is upto us. Similarly we are born Empty what we fill in that Emptiness is upto us.

It’s when you merge into the silence and become one with it that you reconnect to your Source and know the peacefulness that is God. “Be still and know that I am God,” says the Old Testament. The key words…[Read more]

Gyan bhakti vairagya
sukh peev Brahma law dhaye
Aatam anubhav sej sukh,
tahan na dooja jaye.

The happiness of knowledge, devotion and renunciation, takes one near to the God.
But the inner experience makes possible meeting with God where none other can go.

Kabir says that inner journey is a journey of aloneness.

Aloneness is our very…[Read more]

Jungle

A jungle is a symbol of the depths of the human heart. As with our deepest emotions, motivations, and desires, the jungle is impenetrable and difficult to understand.

Similarly it is difficult to understand consciousness.

Taking a Beautiful Line from Rumi: Beyond the Boundaries of the Intellect
The popularity of the mystic Sufi…[Read more]

Kaha sikhapna det ho,
samujhi dekh man mahi
Sabai haraf hai dwat mah,
dwat na harfan mahi.

How much I teach you, you understand your mind, All the letters are in the ink pot but the ink pot is not in the letters.

Kabir says that we are identified with the letters created by ink. Ink is not letter means Ink is consciousness, witnessing,…[Read more]

Hare

The spiritual meaning of the Hare comes from the dawn of time, the Dawn, the East and new beginnings.

New beginnings can happen any day at any time. However, sometimes new beginnings may not be of our own choosing or liking. Maybe the worker didn’t expect or want the promotion. The alcoholic, on the other hand, has clearly made a c…[Read more]

Kagat likhai so kagdi,
Ko vyabhari jeev
Aatam drishti kahan likhai,
Jit dekho tit peev.

What’s written on paper is only a document, it is not a practical experience.
Inner feeling or view is no where written wherever I see I find my loving God.

Kabir in simple words gives distinction between Knowledge and Knowing.

Knowledge and…[Read more]