{"id":474,"date":"2007-09-02T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/09\/02\/second-birth\/"},"modified":"2007-09-02T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T02:54:46","slug":"second-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/09\/02\/second-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/09\/flowerpinkwaterdrops.jpg\" title=\"flowerpinkwaterdrops.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2007\/09\/flowerpinkwaterdrops.jpg\" alt=\"Pink flowers with water drops\" title=\"Pink flowers with water drops\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Again my plans are failing and<br \/>\nI find myself inside another unexpected adventure<br \/>\nspontaneously organised by immaculate design,<br \/>\nThe careful creation of Maha Maya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Suddenly I am in an ordinary play,<br \/>\nCast in the role of the extraordinary.<br \/>\nMistakenly happening upon a precision plan,<br \/>\nan abstract meeting on a mundane day of Glory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>An everyday conversation evolves to the profound,<br \/>\nand I become the instrument of this simple gift.<br \/>\n&#8220;Ask and you shall receive&#8221;, I tell her,<br \/>\n&#8220;Desire the truth in your heart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>My hands outstretched, above those of this stranger,<br \/>\nEyes closed, attention on high.<br \/>\nIn a moment Love\u2019s cool breeze dances<br \/>\nin globes between our palms &#8211; <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>And a smile rises high<br \/>\non the enlightened face<br \/>\nof my newfound sister.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Melissa Richard<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph courtesy of geekphilosopher.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Again my plans are failing and I find myself inside another unexpected adventure spontaneously organised by immaculate design, The careful creation of Maha Maya. Suddenly I am in an ordinary play, Cast in the role of the extraordinary. Mistakenly happening upon a precision plan, an abstract meeting on a mundane day of Glory. An [&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":[29,13],"tags":[188,224,423,448],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-poems","tag-cool-breeze","tag-enlightenment","tag-realisation","tag-sahaja-yoga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-7E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}