{"id":221,"date":"2007-03-18T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/03\/18\/blessings-of-the-guru\/"},"modified":"2007-03-18T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T22:38:42","slug":"blessings-of-the-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/03\/18\/blessings-of-the-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings of the Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/foreshore-walk-tb.JPG\" title=\"foreshore-walk-tb.JPG\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/river.jpg\" title=\"river.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/river.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Valley scene\" height=\"105\" style=\"width: 181px;height: 105px\" title=\"Valley scene\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>It is the mercy of my true Guru that has made me to know the unknown; <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I have learned from Him how to walk without feet, to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to drink without mouth, to fly without wings; <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I have brought my love and my meditation into the land where there is no sun and moon, nor day and night. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Without eating, I have tasted of the sweetness of nectar, and without water, I have quenched my thirst. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Where there is the response of delight, there is the fullness of joy. Before whom can that joy be uttered? <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Kabir says: &#8220;The Guru is great beyond words, and great is the good fortune of the disciple.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One Hundred Poems of Kabir<\/em>. Translated by Rabindranath Tagore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the mercy of my true Guru that has made me to know the unknown; I have learned from Him how to walk without feet, to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to drink without mouth, to fly without wings; I have brought my love and my meditation into the land where there [&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":[23,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23","category-poems","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}