{"id":31,"date":"2006-10-27T05:19:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/27\/mothers-blessings\/"},"modified":"2006-10-27T05:19:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:19:17","slug":"mothers-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/27\/mothers-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/mahadevi-puja-italy-1986-no-11-with-drop-shadow-copy.jpg\" title=\"mahadevi-puja-italy-1986-no-11-with-drop-shadow-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/mahadevi-puja-italy-1986-no-11-with-drop-shadow-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" height=\"208\" style=\"width: 315px;height: 208px\" title=\"Shri Mataji\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I sit, head bowed, and enjoy the shower of pure Chaitanya,<br \/>\nGolden, cooling and pure.<br \/>\nIt washes every impurity in my being,<br \/>\nAs powerfully as the Ganges rushes from the Himalayas,<br \/>\nYet as gently as a mother cleanses her child.<br \/>\nA witness to this event, I enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I raise my head and see Your face, Our Holy Mother;<br \/>\nOne glance and all the cares and tensions are dissolved.<br \/>\nYet this is not the miracle, Holy Mother.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I sit amongst thousands all over the world,<br \/>\nWho are being cleansed and cared for by You,<br \/>\nAs if they, not me, are the only one.<br \/>\nAll are Your children;<br \/>\nAll you care for as You do me.<br \/>\nYet this is not the miracle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>The miracle is You, Our Holy Mother<br \/>\nWho chose to come to us in these days when we are at our worst.<br \/>\nYou came to bless us and to bring us home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit, head bowed, and enjoy the shower of pure Chaitanya, Golden, cooling and pure. It washes every impurity in my being, As powerfully as the Ganges rushes from the Himalayas, Yet as gently as a mother cleanses her child. A witness to this event, I enjoy. I raise my head and see Your face, [&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-31","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-v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}