{"id":640,"date":"2008-04-10T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/04\/10\/the-pure-heart\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T00:34:05","slug":"the-pure-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2008\/04\/10\/the-pure-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pure Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/tukaram.jpg\" title=\"tukaram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/tukaram.jpg\" alt=\"tukaram.jpg\" height=\"402\" style=\"width: 188px;height: 242px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>When the heart is purified with sincerity<br \/>\nThen even enemies become friends.<br \/>\nTigers may come near but will never attack one.<br \/>\nPoison offered to such a one will turn into nectar,<br \/>\nAny harm directed towards him will result into good,<br \/>\nHarsh words will sound polite.<br \/>\nAny pain afflicted will become the source of happiness.<br \/>\nThe flames of fire will turn cool.<br \/>\nFor God All Merciful is pleased.<br \/>\nIf one&#8217;s heart is full of compassion,<br \/>\nIf one loves others more than oneself,<br \/>\nGod will look upon such a one with an eye of mercy<br \/>\nAnd bless his heart with His presence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Tukaram (1608-1660)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: dabase.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the heart is purified with sincerity Then even enemies become friends. Tigers may come near but will never attack one. Poison offered to such a one will turn into nectar, Any harm directed towards him will result into good, Harsh words will sound polite. Any pain afflicted will become the source of happiness. The [&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":[34,13],"tags":[181,257,276,334,353,486,538],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34","category-poems","tag-compassion","tag-god","tag-heart","tag-love","tag-mercy","tag-sincerity","tag-tukaram"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-ak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}