{"id":1169,"date":"2014-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/meditating-at-the-ruins-at-pari-mahal-rev\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T00:00:00","slug":"meditating-at-the-ruins-at-pari-mahal-rev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/meditating-at-the-ruins-at-pari-mahal-rev\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditating At The Ruins At Pari Mahal    (rev)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pari Mahal, a vision of a mystery,<br \/>\nAn eye on the cosmic dance we feel but cannot see.<\/p>\n<p>The ruins are only a few,<br \/>\nDecrepit and solitary,<br \/>\nRiding the curvature of time.<br \/>\nAvoided by people.<\/p>\n<p>From a pivotal fold in Zabarwan Mountains,<br \/>\nOverlooking the expanse of Dal Lake,<br \/>\nLooms a perch for celestial vision,<br \/>\nAn outpost for the search of eternity.<\/p>\n<p>Looking out from Pari Mahal,<br \/>\nEverything seems wrapped in a fog.<br \/>\nEach person chooses his own view and salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Most often you are alone here,<br \/>\nBut you are never lonely,<br \/>\nAs you are in company of twin mysteries:<br \/>\nUniverse and human soul.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Dal Lake from here.<br \/>\nIt is a reverie immersed in an enigma,<br \/>\nA dream still in the throes of its nascent birth,<br \/>\nA vision still struggling in its message.<\/p>\n<p>You see parts of Srinagar from here<br \/>\nAnd wonder why man has turned against man,<br \/>\nWhy the human blood on its streets has yet not dried,<br \/>\nWhy the hatred for the other man is still a war cry?<\/p>\n<p>Why have Kashmiris lost the beauty of their Elysium,<br \/>\nThe magnanimity of their culture,<br \/>\nThe splendor of their soul?<\/p>\n<p>Time recedes to a personal count,<br \/>\nUnknown ascends to a palpable reality,<br \/>\nExistence seems to be an extension of the universe,<br \/>\nMeditation becomes the breath of life.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern,<br \/> New York,<br \/> Sept. 18, 2014; Rev.: 7.30.2015<br \/>\nwww.kaulscorner.com<br \/>\nmaharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pari Mahal, a vision of a mystery, An eye on the cosmic dance we feel but cannot see. The ruins are only a few, Decrepit and solitary, Riding the curvature&#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-1169","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\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}