{"id":981,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/god\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/god\/","title":{"rendered":"God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God is in the compassion for the lost child,<br \/>\nIn the equality of all men,<br \/>\nIn the dancing contour of a wave,<br \/>\nSteadfastness in holding to principles,<br \/>\nIn the pursuit of truth.<\/p>\n<p>He is timeless and spaceless,<br \/>\nHe can be grasped and yet is transcendent,<br \/>\nHe is everywhere and yet is nowhere,<br \/>\nHe does not speak yet we have his answers,<br \/>\nHe is an idea we can not materialize,<br \/>\nA part of ourselves and yet larger than we,<br \/>\nHis beauty lies in his supreme reasonableness,<br \/>\nAnd his message is to be larger than life.<\/p>\n<p>God is the messenger and man is the message,<br \/>\nNature is the work of natural laws,<br \/>\nBut man\u2019s mind weaves the fabric of ethics, beauty, and truth,<br \/>\nMan is both nature and mind.<\/p>\n<p>Above us is a dome of unknown,<br \/>\nBelow us is a shaky earth,<br \/>\nMan\u2019s only anchor is his ideas ( or their pursuit),<br \/>\nGod is an idea that is grounded in reality,<br \/>\nIt has been one of man\u2019s most enduring ideas,<br \/>\nScience can not change it much.<\/p>\n<p>Had there not have been a god so far,<br \/>\nIt would be invented,<br \/>\nMan is structured to have a need for him,<br \/>\nGod is the inner reflection of man,<br \/>\nHis need for order, meaning, and direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is in the compassion for the lost child, In the equality of all men, In the dancing contour of a wave, Steadfastness in holding to principles, In the pursuit&#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-981","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\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}