{"id":1878,"date":"2012-12-19T23:25:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2012-12-19T23:25:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T12:25:20","slug":"joy-and-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2012\/12\/19\/joy-and-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy and Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1879\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2012\/12\/19\/joy-and-self\/shri-mataji-laughs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1879\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1879\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/Shri-Mataji-laughs-300x220.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shri Mataji<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous and never degrading to anyone. In every small thing, it sees a beauty. And the nature of every creation is so beautiful&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you have the problem of unhappiness, just be on the watch-out and see why. Why have you developed this kind of a funny attitude towards everything? Why can&#8217;t you enjoy everything? You go on watching this person, that person. You never enjoy. While if you watch the children, it is very interesting&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There was a joke about a child. They had a guest in their house and he was eating. So this child saw that man eating. He said, &#8220;Mama, he doesn&#8217;t eat like a horse. You said he eats like a horse.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So that is what they are &#8211; very simple, very simple-hearted- and that is how they correct people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shri Mataji, London, 22 April 1984<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous and never degrading to anyone. In every small thing, it sees a beauty. And the nature of every creation is so beautiful&#8230;. If you have the [&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":[80,14,16],"tags":[135,169,272,286,312],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-80","category-quotes","category-shri-mataji","tag-beauty","tag-children","tag-happiness","tag-humour","tag-joy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-ui","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}