{"id":1010,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/seeing-through-a-window\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"seeing-through-a-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/seeing-through-a-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Through A Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A window is a fine thing to have,<br \/>Whether inside or outside.<br \/>Looking is the primary function of mind,<br \/>Which may turn into seeing.<br \/>We see not only to find new and old things<br \/>But also to see nothing.<br \/>It is the nothingness that is more significant than the things.<br \/>Mind needs a reference to establish objectivity<br \/>And a boundary between the spiritual and the material.<\/p>\n<p>A window is larger than us<br \/>Because it has purpose, objectivity, and selflessness.<br \/>For every clear window man has nine stained windows.<br \/>It is the message from nature (God) that we corrupt<br \/>That tangles our lives and turns them into a shadow unbleachable.<br \/>If we could only see clearly we would be riding an angelic horse,<br \/>Our journey here on earth a ribbon of light.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen a serene slice of nature<br \/>On a clear irenic day \u2013<br \/>A tapestry of mystic pregnancy,<br \/>A trance waiting to happen now,<br \/>But a communication connecting us with eternity?<br \/>Man and nature are the same but eons of misunderstanding<br \/>Has put between them an immutable wall.<\/p>\n<p>Man has many distractions in the world.<br \/>Spun by culture, invented by commerce.<br \/>Petty materialistic toys offered easily ensnare him.<br \/>For every such tie man loses an equivalent spiritual freedom.<br \/>Problem is that material world is easy to understand<br \/>But spiritual world needs jettisoning of some of our pet assumptions, values, and visions.<\/p>\n<p>A window is a way to get out of ourselves,<br \/>To belong to the world beyond ourselves,<br \/>To feel that we belong to a much larger phenomenon.<br \/>Our stay on earth is but a twinkle in the cosmic dance.<br \/>Man is greater than his achievements, higher than his aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Man\u2019s journey has not been easy,<br \/>For each enlightenment there are two falsehoods,<br \/>For each brilliant vision there are two abysmal illusions.<br \/>But we must try to lift ourselves above the trashy daily worldly life.<br \/>Even if we fail to achieve the crest of human life\u2019s splendor,<br \/>We would still have gained some light, some freedom, some joy,<br \/>And some insight into the larger things.<\/p>\n<p>Let us start with having an outer window,<br \/>And become good unbiased observers.<br \/>Then graduate to the creation of an inner window<br \/>(The two windows are connected)<br \/>And start seeing things that were not there before.<br \/>We will see a garden before us, beautiful and magnificent.<br \/>But it can disappear any moment if we do not hold on to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A window is a fine thing to have,Whether inside or outside.Looking is the primary function of mind,Which may turn into seeing.We see not only to find new and old thingsBut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poems"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}