{"id":5850,"date":"2014-03-13T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:12:38","slug":"gratitude-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2014\/5850\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article_text_blocks\">\n<p>Serenity comes only with surrender,<br \/>\ntrusting all is ultimately one.<br \/>\nDuality is merely a pretender,<br \/>\nplaying on life&#8217;s stage with light; (it&#8217;s fun)!<br \/>\nIllusion is composed of form and gender,<br \/>\nplanets, moon and stars, and blazing sun.<br \/>\nBut death compacts us all with cosmic blender-<br \/>\nwhen atoms merge, apparent form&#8217;s undone.<\/p>\n<p>Though sure of this, I sometimes still forget,<br \/>\nbut then you&#8217;re there to pull the veils aside,<br \/>\nrevealing views that teach me not to let<br \/>\nmy focus on pure consciousness slip-slide<br \/>\naway and hide the truth that&#8217;s firmly set,<br \/>\nyet can be falsified by stubborn tide<br \/>\nwhen Mind is caught in habit&#8217;s sticky net,<br \/>\naligned with sadness, anger, greed or pride.<\/p>\n<p>If I did not have you, Beloved Mother and Master,<br \/>\nmy life might have resulted in disaster!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; by Rama Devi Nina (USA)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serenity comes only with surrender, trusting all is ultimately one. Duality is merely a pretender, playing on life&#8217;s stage with light; (it&#8217;s fun)! Illusion is composed of form and gender, planets, moon and stars, and blazing sun. But death compacts us all with cosmic blender- when atoms merge, apparent form&#8217;s undone. Though sure of this, [&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-5850","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\/5850","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=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}