{"id":597,"date":"2008-02-14T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T21:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/02\/14\/pure-chaitanya\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T08:12:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T21:12:29","slug":"pure-chaitanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/02\/14\/pure-chaitanya\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Chaitanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ganges.jpg\" title=\"ganges.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ganges.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"River Ganges near the Himalayas\" height=\"215\" style=\"width: 301px;height: 215px\" title=\"River Ganges near the Himalayas\" \/><\/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 \/>\nAll who 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 now in these days where we are at our worst.<br \/>\nYou came to bless us and to bring us all home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Lisa Barron<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: tripadvisor.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 [&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":[40,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40","category-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-9D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}