{"id":7888,"date":"2014-12-31T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2015-01-02T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T07:11:29","slug":"birth-of-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2014\/7888\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ma, long long ago, was there a God, named sun,<br \/>\nWhen the vibrant prana calmly rested in Brahma?<br \/>\nThe effulgent Self already swallowed the illusion,<br \/>\nOnly silence reigned with empty space illumined.<\/p>\n<p>Then silence disturbed, the dance of Siva began,<br \/>\nThe vibrant prana roared Om, Om and Om,<br \/>\nThe Self willed let me become many and many,<br \/>\nThus the universes countless born endlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, the silent witness, willed with his mind,<br \/>\nAnd the prana vibrated with the three gunas,<br \/>\nThe trinity were born, Brahma, Vishnu and Siva,<br \/>\nCreation began, its beginning incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>Infinite worlds came into existence, so-called Sat,<br \/>\nOne among them the sun, the moon and the Earth,<br \/>\nThe system whose terms are year, month and day,<br \/>\nClock speeds measured in hours, minutes and seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Ma, Thou art unborn, infinite assuming The form<br \/>\n<em>Sunya Kalpa Vibhuta<\/em>, <em>Desa Kala Paricchinna<\/em>,<br \/>\nBlessed us to celebrate every day in Thy presence,<br \/>\nWith the knowledge of the Self, source of Existence.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;\u00a0 Sridhar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma, long long ago, was there a God, named sun, When the vibrant prana calmly rested in Brahma? The effulgent Self already swallowed the illusion, Only silence reigned with empty space illumined. Then silence disturbed, the dance of Siva began, The vibrant prana roared Om, Om and Om, The Self willed let me become many [&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-7888","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\/7888","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=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}