{"id":4247,"date":"2011-07-12T23:51:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T11:27:14","slug":"on-guru-poornima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2011\/4247\/","title":{"rendered":"On Guru Poornima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amma, as an infant I loved only the shining Moon,<br \/>\nThough the sky is vast, and it\u2019s full of effulgent stars,<br \/>\nAppended for Thy children to cherish divine dreams,<\/p>\n<p>As I grew young and adult, the world looked fatal,<br \/>\nI could see the sky only covered with misty clouds,<br \/>\nLo! the habits turned my life into hellish dreams.<\/p>\n<p>So long I longed to get back to my days of infancy,<br \/>\nTo be cradled in Thy mellifluous songs of lullaby,<br \/>\nYet, the torments of desires shattered me away.<\/p>\n<p>Amma, Thou dost day and night for all Thy children,<br \/>\nThy self-less love reminds to strive hard, not look back,<br \/>\nThe dreadful days of despondence in the dismal world.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, it\u2019s a fervent vow that I shall reach Thy abode,<br \/>\nAs a Divine Child who has conquered ferocious desires,<br \/>\nAnd I offer this on the Auspicious Guru Poornima Day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sridhar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amma, as an infant I loved only the shining Moon, Though the sky is vast, and it\u2019s full of effulgent stars, Appended for Thy children to cherish divine dreams, As I grew young and adult, the world looked fatal, I could see the sky only covered with misty clouds, Lo! the habits turned my life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[125,477],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poem","tag-poornima"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}