{"id":18,"date":"2006-10-26T04:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/26\/when-realisation-comes\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T11:58:18","slug":"when-realisation-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/26\/when-realisation-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"When Realisation Comes &#8211; Kabir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/hubble-photo1-cropped.BMP\" alt=\"Hubble telescope photograph\" height=\"256\" style=\"width: 291px;height: 256px\" title=\"Hubble telescope photograph\" id=\"image29\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>My dread of death and birth came to an end<br \/>\nWhen the Lord in his glorious hue<br \/>\nRevealed himself to me.<br \/>\nHis light shone within me<br \/>\nAnd darkness disappeared.<br \/>\nWhen I contemplated within I obtained<br \/>\nThe rare gem of the Lord&#8217;s Name;<br \/>\nIn the wake of my bliss<br \/>\nAll miseries fled away.<br \/>\nThe jewel of my mind became absorbed<br \/>\nIn the Lord&#8217;s love within;<br \/>\nWhatever now happens, O Lord.<br \/>\nI accept as Thy will.<br \/>\nOne who lives in Thy will<br \/>\nMerges in Sahaj.<br \/>\nSays Kabir: My sins have become ineffective,<br \/>\nAnd my soul is suffused by the One<br \/>\nWho is the life of the entire creation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Kabir<\/p>\n<p>In this poem Kabir describes the devotee&#8217;s state of bliss on attaining God-realisation. His rounds of transmigration finally come to an end, the dark shadows of doubt and delusion melt away and he is free from all miseries. His mind, initially an obstacle on the spiritual path, becomes an ally when it starts relishing the spiritual joy within. Purified, it becomes still; from tinsel it emerges as a jewel. Realising the supreme authority of the Lord, the devotee accepts all that comes in his life as the Lord&#8217;s will, and thereby merges into the state of Sahaj.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 My dread of death and birth came to an end When the Lord in his glorious hue Revealed himself to me. His light shone within me And darkness disappeared. When I contemplated within I obtained The rare gem of the Lord&#8217;s Name; In the wake of my bliss All miseries fled away. The [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-oct-2006","category-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}