{"id":993,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/is-that-what-is-human-life\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"is-that-what-is-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/is-that-what-is-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Is  That  What  Is  Human  Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eyes unhappy to focus deeply on anything,<br \/>Legs performing their duty nonchalantly,<br \/>A pulsating shadow of pain in torso,<br \/>Body fighting to leave behind a harsh day\u2019s fatigue,<br \/>Mind restaging its arsenals to combat a spiritual wearying,<br \/>A gallant beginning in the morning is fading dismally,<br \/>A day in human life is ending.<\/p>\n<p>Day in and day out human life<br \/>Must go through the rough worldly grind.<br \/>Human spirit must percolate through the jagged sieve<br \/>Before it can dream of glory.<br \/>Each emotion must be expended to survive,<br \/>Each thought committed to keep out of troubles.<\/p>\n<p>An inflamed spirit, a sublime soul, an inspired mind,<br \/>Experience the sharp angularities of the world \u2013<br \/>Its crassness, its insensitivity, its unsophistication.<br \/>We must fall in mud before we can look up stars,<br \/>A moment of bliss is entwined with a thousand miseries,<br \/>We must die a thousand times<br \/>Before we are toughened to hold a faith.<\/p>\n<p>The world moves like a clockwork.<br \/>Each person aspires for power,<br \/>Each person pursues material goals.<br \/>Happiness and acquisitions are considered the same.<br \/>The ensuing insecurity is bottomless,<br \/>The mirage of happiness is chasing an ever receding horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Human life is wasted in its daily chores,<br \/>Progress of worldly life a blinding illusion.<br \/>To make a house on the bridge of life<br \/>Is the most perverse plan.<br \/>What is spiritual in essence<br \/>Can not be secured in a material edifice.<\/p>\n<p>I fall on the craggy edges of life<br \/>And ache with seething pain.<br \/>I tremble and murmur:<br \/>Is that what is human life?<br \/>I wonder if God had meant that we live the way we do,<br \/>Or is it our illusion, our fallacy?<\/p>\n<p>I look through my window<br \/>At the verdant sheen outside,<br \/>Speckled with the majesty of trees touching the zenith,<br \/>I see the sinuous curves of a rivulet on the horizon,<br \/>I feel the infinite and the resplendent blue of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>When the mosaic of colored leaves<br \/>Dance down to ground in fall,<br \/>Uncovering the stark and inner beauty of trees,<br \/>They point to the spirit behind,<br \/>The master\u2019s invisible hands.<br \/>Never at rest,<br \/>Never far away from human perception.<\/p>\n<p>Aloft a silent salubrious evening,<br \/>Gliding over its serene mystery,<br \/>Rests the spirit of eternity,<br \/>The call of the unknown.<br \/>A point of light in the darkness,<br \/>Masked often by the material world.<\/p>\n<p>When you recede from the world<br \/>You walk into the lap of nature \u2013<br \/>The eternal mother.<br \/>It has beauty, principles, and truth.<br \/>You become nature when you give yourself to it.<br \/>It is a life where all the quests end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyes unhappy to focus deeply on anything,Legs performing their duty nonchalantly,A pulsating shadow of pain in torso,Body fighting to leave behind a harsh day\u2019s fatigue,Mind restaging its arsenals to combat&#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-993","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\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}