{"id":5539,"date":"2013-11-03T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2013-11-03T01:52:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T20:22:04","slug":"a-deepavali-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2013\/5539\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deepavali offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A birth at Thy Lotus Feet,<\/p>\n<p>Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet,<br \/>\nTo fearlessly live in Thy gracious spiritual light,<br \/>\nForsaking the sensual pleasures, living in Thy compassion<br \/>\nEmbellished with the jewels of discrimination and dispassion<\/p>\n<p>Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet,<br \/>\nTo joyously live in Thy gracious spiritual light,<br \/>\nServing all effortlessly, sharing Thy selfless love,<br \/>\nMeditating silently like the bees resting in a hive.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet,<br \/>\nTo splendidly live in Thy gracious spiritual light,<br \/>\nSinging Thy immaculate glory with exact cadence,<br \/>\nWith the best of musical lyrics sang in reverence.<\/p>\n<p>Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet,<br \/>\nTo ecstatically live in Thy gracious spiritual light,<br \/>\nWith knowledge culminated in supreme devotion,<br \/>\nKnowing that I\u2019m Thy Universal Self, named \u201cOm\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Om Tat Sat Om<\/p>\n<p>Offering the poem at AMMA&#8217;s Lotus Feet<br \/>\non the most auspicious Deepavali day.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing all AMMA&#8217;s children a very happy Deepavali.<\/p>\n<p><em>by Sridhar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A birth at Thy Lotus Feet, Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet, To fearlessly live in Thy gracious spiritual light, Forsaking the sensual pleasures, living in Thy compassion Embellished with the jewels of discrimination and dispassion Mother, grant Thy child a birth at Thy Lotus Feet, To joyously live in 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":[591],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-deepavali"],"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\/5539","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=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}