{"id":1031,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-reflection-from-the-mirror-of-god\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"a-reflection-from-the-mirror-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/a-reflection-from-the-mirror-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reflection From The Mirror Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been driving long and hard,<br \/>Over the tortuous, rugged terrain.<br \/>The struggle was occasionally relieved<br \/>By splendid, seductive scenery on the way.<\/p>\n<p>During the journey many times I thought of quitting,<br \/>As the prize did not seem worth the perspiration and the anguish.<br \/>But the drive to continue was unrelenting.<br \/>Its insane impulse was as troubling<br \/>As it was mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am within the euphoria range of my destination &#8211;<br \/>My home \u2013 my answered prayers \u2013<br \/>The essence of my existence.<br \/>My road is finally ending.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping inside the home<br \/>I was shocked and dazzled<br \/>To see a cosmic glow all around,<br \/>Suffused with a hypnotic music,<br \/>Ensconcing me to a permanent dream,<br \/>And around me angels danced with magical rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing in the home now<br \/>Like the way it used to be.<br \/>I wondered if I could live here anymore.<br \/>But gradually I realized that<br \/>I was in the other-world<br \/>And would not be returning to earth.<br \/>I was now in an imperishable home,<br \/>Immersed in a new consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>In my new home there is no beginning and no end &#8211;<br \/>Everything is eternal.<br \/>There are no desires and there are no thoughts,<br \/>No success and no failure.<br \/>I experienced a revelation<br \/>That everything in cosmos is<br \/>A reflection from the mirror of God.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, 2.14.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been driving long and hard,Over the tortuous, rugged terrain.The struggle was occasionally relievedBy splendid, seductive scenery on the way. During the journey many times I thought of quitting,As&#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-1031","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\/1031","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=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}