{"id":15,"date":"2006-10-17T03:07:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/17\/poem-from-canada\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T03:07:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T10:07:37","slug":"poem-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/17\/poem-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem to Shri Mataji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/39.JPG\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" height=\"132\" style=\"width: 190px;height: 132px\" title=\"Shri Mataji\" id=\"image66\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">O Great Spirit,<br \/>\nShri Mataji Nirmala Devi<br \/>\nWhose voice we hear in the winds<br \/>\nAnd whose breath gives life to all the world,<br \/>\nHear us!<br \/>\nWe are small and weak,<br \/>\nWe need your strength and wisdom.<br \/>\nLet us walk in Beauty, and make our eyes<br \/>\nEver behold the red and purple sunset.<br \/>\nMake our hands respect the things you have<br \/>\nMade and our ears sharp to hear your voice.<br \/>\nLet us learn the lessons<br \/>\nYou have hidden in every leaf and rock.<br \/>\nWe seek strength, not to be greater than our brother<br \/>\nBut to fight our greatest enemy &#8211;<br \/>\nOurselves.<br \/>\nMake us always ready to come to you<br \/>\nWith clean hands and straight eyes.<br \/>\nSo when life fades, as the fading sunset,<br \/>\nOur spirit may come to you &#8211;<br \/>\nWithout Shame<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This poem was recently presented to Shri Mataji by Canadian Sahaja Yogis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 O Great Spirit, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi Whose voice we hear in the winds And whose breath gives life to all the world, Hear us! We are small and weak, We need your strength and wisdom. Let us walk in Beauty, and make our eyes Ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[18,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-oct-2006","category-poems","category-shri-mataji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}