{"id":436,"date":"2007-07-14T17:35:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/14\/ode-to-the-conch\/"},"modified":"2007-07-14T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T06:35:24","slug":"ode-to-the-conch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/14\/ode-to-the-conch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Conch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/conch1.gif\" title=\"conch1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/conch1.gif\" alt=\"Shri Durga blew on a conch while fighting to protect Her devotees\" height=\"160\" style=\"width: 199px;height: 160px\" title=\"Shri Durga blew on a conch while fighting to protect Her devotees\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>O Conch,<br \/>\nYou form of perfection<br \/>\nWho could imitate you?<br \/>\nOnly inside us<br \/>\nThere is an echo<br \/>\nOf that spiral form<br \/>\nSounding forth that OM,<br \/>\nWinding through our lives<br \/>\nIn this unwitting world<br \/>\nWhich has forgotten<br \/>\nThat note of quietude<br \/>\nOr the power of your song<br \/>\nBorn in the dawn of creation when<br \/>\nLord Siva<br \/>\nGently pushed His Shakti forth<br \/>\nAnd in Her whirling dance<br \/>\nThe Innocence was formed<br \/>\nOn your long winding note.<br \/>\nWe now can hear again<br \/>\nThat pure untempered sound.<br \/>\nAnd can imagine how<br \/>\nWhen Durga raised you to Her lips<br \/>\nAnd blew divine breath through you<br \/>\nWhat dismay you brought Her foes then<br \/>\nIn that swelling roar of sound.<br \/>\nHaving no hollow within themselves<br \/>\nThey could not bear it.<br \/>\nAnd now we widen chambers in our hearts<br \/>\nIn stillness to receive and send<br \/>\nYour golden caul of sound<br \/>\nThroughout the universe<br \/>\nAt perfect pitch of praise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">LV<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: lucylearns.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 O Conch, You form of perfection Who could imitate you? Only inside us There is an echo Of that spiral form Sounding forth that OM, Winding through our lives In this unwitting world Which has forgotten That note of quietude Or the power of your song Born in the dawn of creation when Lord [&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":[27,13],"tags":[184,298,477,481],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27","category-poems","tag-conch","tag-innocence","tag-shri-durga","tag-shri-shiva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-72","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}