{"id":1044,"date":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/quintessence-of-inner-luminosity\/"},"modified":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"quintessence-of-inner-luminosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/quintessence-of-inner-luminosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Quintessence Of Inner Luminosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to Lynn Harper-Cheechoo:<br \/>\nA person endowed with a spirit and carrying a spiritual mission<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj Kaul<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I dreamt I was streaming toward the center of Milky Way,<br \/>\nThe road was a ribbon of starlight, the horizon aglow with a million sunsets.<br \/>\nThe closer I seemed to my destination, the more it seemed to recede.<br \/>\nThe celestial chase went on for a while till I forgot my goal and started loving its pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>We twist and turn, fret and mourn in the ever sharper gyrations of our struggle,<br \/>\nThe world has us in its fierce thrall, yet the eternity is here and now,<br \/>\nThe wounds of our existence melt in the pursuit of the absolute,<br \/>\nEvery moment of life is a prayer to touch the sublime,<br \/>\nEvery breath inching us toward reposing in the infinite sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Under the layers of dust is a sheet of shining metal,<br \/>\nIn the anarchy of life securely reside our dreams,<br \/>\nIn the fragility of our pores lie the colossal visions of our minds,<br \/>\nIn the sweltering trenches of the world our hearts never fail to beat.<\/p>\n<p>There is a road in front of us smoother than any highway we have seen,<br \/>\nThere is music beckoning us more rapturous than we have ever heard,<br \/>\nThere is faith in us stronger than a million facts we have known,<br \/>\nThere is a light within us more luminous than the thousand exploding suns,<br \/>\nWe were born with a spirit thirsting for the infinite.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, 8.10.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to Lynn Harper-Cheechoo: A person endowed with a spirit and carrying a spiritual mission Maharaj Kaul Yesterday I dreamt I was streaming toward the center of Milky Way, The&#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-1044","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\/1044","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=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}