{"id":366,"date":"2007-06-18T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/18\/366\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T01:20:45","slug":"366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/18\/366\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/mother-glasses.jpg\" title=\"mother-glasses.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/mother-glasses.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" title=\"Shri Mataji\" \/><\/a>First of all, you have to be austere with yourself; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>just separate yourself from yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Separate yourself as a Spirit and look at your ego and superego. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now you start watching the ego and superego \u2013 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>do not maintain it; they are the destroying forces. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now when you see the play as a witness of these destroying forces <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>you will know how to also maintain yourself better. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To separate yourself is easier when you take to austerity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shri Mataji, 1985<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, you have to be austere with yourself; just separate yourself from yourself. Separate yourself as a Spirit and look at your ego and superego. Now you start watching the ego and superego \u2013 do not maintain it; they are the destroying forces. Now when you see the play as a witness of [&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":[26,8,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","category-great-spiritual-leaders","category-quotes","category-shri-mataji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4h1Q1-366","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}