{"id":331,"date":"2022-03-15T05:38:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T05:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2022-03-15T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:51:30","slug":"digression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/digression\/","title":{"rendered":"Digression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Does one flow with the trend or does one follow one\u2019s conscience mandate?&nbsp; What happens when one encounters the gap between one\u2019s Knowing and Being.&nbsp; One such incident happened yesterday.&nbsp; The ushering of the New Year\/spring festival is traditionally done in the hills with young girls laying flowers at the doorsteps of the houses and giving benedictions for prosperity. We did that yesterday to teach the young ones the culture and to keep the Tradition on.&nbsp; But it went against the love of our life \u2013 our Founders deep inherent love for nature and his resolve to never pick a flower as that would entail strangling the child of Nature.&nbsp; We can\u2019t even say sorry, as he said it\u2019s better to not repeat rather than say \u2018sorry\u2019 and not mean it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>May we able to teach our young ones what we know ushers the life force<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>May our thoughts, actions and speech be in unity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/273269916_10158705626321375_4546489295296878958_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/273269916_10158705626321375_4546489295296878958_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/273269916_10158705626321375_4546489295296878958_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/273269916_10158705626321375_4546489295296878958_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Who has like thou mingled the strains of joy and sorrow somehow into the song of my life, enabling me to realise and know the joy that from eternity does flow, a joy that endures through all pains yet claims nothing after many gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To those who understand the message and its words for them there shall be no fear left on the earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Therefore, today with undying gratitude complete, this flower offers its petals at thy lotus feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;                    From Swami Rama Poetry reading&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does one flow with the trend or does one follow one\u2019s conscience mandate?&nbsp; What happens when one encounters the gap between one\u2019s Knowing and Being.&nbsp; One such incident happened yesterday.&nbsp; The ushering of the New Year\/spring festival is traditionally done in the hills with young girls laying flowers at the doorsteps of the houses and <a href=\"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/digression\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Digression<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}