{"id":6387,"date":"2014-12-08T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2014-12-20T01:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:46:20","slug":"guru-the-alchemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2014\/6387\/","title":{"rendered":"Guru, The Alchemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ma, obsessed with pride,<br \/>\nI could barely bear Thy chide;<br \/>\nYet Thy motherly grace flowed so mild,<br \/>\nWhen I was lost in sensual life so wild.<\/p>\n<p>Ma, obsessed with avarice,<br \/>\nI could barely hear Thy advice;<br \/>\nLeaving me to suffer an\u2019 bear,<br \/>\nTo learn the lesson, \u2018tis to forbear.<\/p>\n<p>Ma, obsessed with animosity,<br \/>\nI could barely be up an\u2019 obey;<br \/>\nThy kindliest words of love and service,<br \/>\nMa, forgive Thy child, bestial an\u2019 rebellious.<\/p>\n<p>Ma, bless me to remove all my defects,<br \/>\nAs I chant Thy names, infinite an\u2019 endless;<br \/>\nOnly Thou knowst what\u2019s good an\u2019 beneficent,<br \/>\nVerily Thou art omniscient an\u2019 truly th\u2019 Alchemist.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Sridhar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma, obsessed with pride, I could barely bear Thy chide; Yet Thy motherly grace flowed so mild, When I was lost in sensual life so wild. Ma, obsessed with avarice, I could barely hear Thy advice; Leaving me to suffer an\u2019 bear, To learn the lesson, \u2018tis to forbear. Ma, obsessed with animosity, I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5287,"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-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2013\/06\/12bkakti2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","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=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}