{"id":510,"date":"2007-10-17T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/10\/17\/fickle-things\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T05:23:11","slug":"fickle-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/10\/17\/fickle-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Fickle Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/forest-scene-aust-govt.jpg\" title=\"forest-scene-aust-govt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/forest-scene-aust-govt.jpg\" alt=\"Forest scene, Australia\" title=\"Forest scene, Australia\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>These are the futile moments<br \/>\nWhere the peace that You have granted<br \/>\nFlies away into temptations;<br \/>\nIn unwisdom it gets planted.<br \/>\nFor such fickle things as these<br \/>\nI tear myself from You.<br \/>\nWith burnt-out histories and crazy ideas,<br \/>\nYou disappear from view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <em>You graced me with the right<br \/>\nTo choose what is wrong,<br \/>\nBut now I see the light<br \/>\nAnd I know where I belong.<br \/>\nIt seems a gentle balance<br \/>\nThat a Yogi has to find,<br \/>\nTo keep You always close at heart,<br \/>\nIn thought and word and mind.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <em>I look to Your eternal eyes,<br \/>\nAm faced with my mistakes.<br \/>\nTo clear the aching false desires,<br \/>\nThe ego here must break.<br \/>\nI wish today to turn back time,<br \/>\nAnd choose a wiser path,<br \/>\nTo catch myself the instant that<br \/>\nMy blindness turned to wrath.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <em>I wish that I could see myself<br \/>\nWhen I\u2019m thinking as a fool,<br \/>\nPull myself back into line,<br \/>\nTo Your auspicious rule.<br \/>\nI now must take tapasya<br \/>\nTo strengthen what is weak,<br \/>\nTo find instead the innocence<br \/>\nAnd purity that I seek.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <em>Forgive me, Mother, for the times today<br \/>\nI forgot to see what\u2019s true,<br \/>\nFor ignorance in thoughts and words<br \/>\nI wish I could undo.<br \/>\nI\u2019m tired of having days like this;<br \/>\nPlease give me pure desire,<br \/>\nTo stop my mind from wandering<br \/>\nand indulging in the Maya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Melissa Richard<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: National Parks and Wildlife, Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the futile moments Where the peace that You have granted Flies away into temptations; In unwisdom it gets planted. For such fickle things as these I tear myself from You. With burnt-out histories and crazy ideas, You disappear from view. You graced me with the right To choose what is wrong, But now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[30,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}