{"id":5255,"date":"2013-03-18T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2013-03-18T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:24:01","slug":"the-cry-of-a-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2013\/5255\/","title":{"rendered":"The cry of a flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the flowers offered by chants at thy feet,<br \/>\nI hear sounds of a weeping flower.<br \/>\nIt cries out of sheer ecstasy,<br \/>\nbeing a flower chosen for holy worship.<\/p>\n<p>Every mantra vibrates on each petal.<br \/>\nFeels your vibes of love and compassion.<br \/>\nOh! Mother of universe how blessed are they,<br \/>\nto be offered at thy holy feet.<\/p>\n<p>Even a grain of sand is blessed,<br \/>\nto receive your foot fall on it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As you trot; a chant of AUM reverberate.<br \/>\nNature stands still in meditation.<br \/>\nA sweet breeze smears a fragrance of jasmine.<br \/>\nyour pure whiteness percolates around.<br \/>\nOh! Mother let me be a grain under your feet,<br \/>\na blade of grass, just to feel your grace.<br \/>\nLet me be an insignificant creature,<br \/>\nwho always significantly captures thy caress<\/p>\n<p>by Sateeshan Rangonath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst the flowers offered by chants at thy feet, I hear sounds of a weeping flower. It cries out of sheer ecstasy, being a flower chosen for holy worship. Every mantra vibrates on each petal. Feels your vibes of love and compassion. Oh! Mother of universe how blessed are they, to be offered at thy [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"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\/5255","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=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}