{"id":1023,"date":"2009-03-08T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2009-03-08T08:23:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T21:23:36","slug":"i-have-surrendered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2009\/03\/08\/i-have-surrendered\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Surrendered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1024\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1024  \" title=\"Lotus flower\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/03\/lotus-flower-6-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"(Lotus flower)\" width=\"189\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/03\/lotus-flower-6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/03\/lotus-flower-6-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/03\/lotus-flower-6.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Lotus flower)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Holy Mother of my soul, complete,<br \/>\nI have surrendered, at Your Lotus Feet,<br \/>\nAll the hurt and all the heat,<br \/>\nAll the feelings of defeat,<br \/>\nAll the anger, all the pain,<br \/>\nAll the tension, all the strain,<br \/>\nAll the worries, all the fears,<br \/>\nAll the years of unshed tears.<br \/>\nOh! Shri Vishnumaya, dazzling bright,<br \/>\nChase away the shadows of the night.<br \/>\nShri Adi Guru, ancient dawning light,<br \/>\nTake away illusion from my sight.<br \/>\nLet the dried-up hot dead sea of strife<br \/>\nTurn to the lush soft garden of vibrant life.<br \/>\nShow me the way to become my own Master,<br \/>\nHow to reach my Self in the Virata.<br \/>\nThe Way is only You, Your Lotus Feet,<br \/>\nBeloved Holy Mother, my All, Complete.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Katie Cartmel<\/p>\n<p>(Photograph: Vishnu Bonneau)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Mother of my soul, complete, I have surrendered, at Your Lotus Feet, All the hurt and all the heat, All the feelings of defeat, All the anger, all the pain, All the tension, all the strain, All the worries, all the fears, All the years of unshed tears. Oh! Shri Vishnumaya, dazzling bright, Chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,13],"tags":[344,467,515],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-50","category-poems","tag-master","tag-self","tag-surrender"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-gv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}