{"id":1145,"date":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/the-other-side-of-life-rev\/"},"modified":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","slug":"the-other-side-of-life-rev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/the-other-side-of-life-rev\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side Of Life   (rev)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life has more than one side to it:<br \/>\nOne side is pulsating with hopes and desires,<br \/>\nThe other signifies the futility of that common hope.<\/p>\n<p>We wallow in endless hope to believe that one day<br \/>\nWe would be prosperous and therefore happy,<br \/>\nBut that hope becomes our chimera, our grand illusion.<\/p>\n<p>Is worldly success our goal<br \/>\nOr nature\u2019s wisdom the ultimate prize?<br \/>\nHuman values are uncertain, as epochs have shown us,<br \/>\nThe truth is that actually we know little about life.<\/p>\n<p>What did God have in mind when he conceived of human life:<br \/>\nHis plaything, a meaningless dance?<br \/>\nOr a grand quest for the eternal?<\/p>\n<p>Nature was made by natural laws<br \/>\nBut worldly wisdom was based on human thought,<br \/>\nThe duality between the two will<br \/>\nForever divide the human reason and psyche,<br \/>\nAbsolute conception of life will eternally remain a divided domain.<\/p>\n<p>Is following the wisdom of nature higher than the service of the world?<br \/>\nLife is two-sided and there is no way to know which is superior.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, <br \/>New York,<br \/> Sept. 6, 2013;<br \/> Rev.: 7.29.15<br \/>\nwww.kaulscorner.com<br \/>\nmaharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life has more than one side to it: One side is pulsating with hopes and desires, The other signifies the futility of that common hope. We wallow in endless hope&#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-1145","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\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}