{"id":9,"date":"2006-10-12T21:37:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T04:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=4"},"modified":"2006-10-12T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T04:37:43","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2006\/10\/12\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge of the Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/mahadevi-puja-italy-1986-no-11-with-drop-shadow-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" height=\"216\" style=\"width: 315px;height: 216px\" title=\"Shri Mataji\" id=\"image9\" \/><em>Yoga is very difficult of achievement. Even after making strenuous efforts, you are not able to master it. And so you fail to realise God. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am, therefore, telling you the secret of my heart. It is not necessary for you either to control the mind or to subdue the senses. Instead only do this: wheresoever your mind goes astray, imagine your Sadguru&#8217;s feet to be there. Knowledge of Brahman will then dawn on you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jnaneshwara says, endeavour to become Nirguna, and you will come to know fully the secret of the knowledge of Self.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shri Jnaneshwara (Incarnation of Shri Kartikeya), <em>Abhangas <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga is very difficult of achievement. Even after making strenuous efforts, you are not able to master it. And so you fail to realise God. I am, therefore, telling you the secret of my heart. It is not necessary for you either to control the mind or to subdue the senses. Instead only do this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-oct-2006","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4h1Q1-4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}