{"id":354,"date":"2023-04-11T10:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/?page_id=354"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T17:47:22","slug":"desire-the-noose-or-desire-the-creator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/in-praise-of-mother-lalitha\/desire-the-noose-or-desire-the-creator","title":{"rendered":"Desire, the noose &#8211; or desire, the creator!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Desire, a force so ethereal and light,\nCan bring about transformation, so bright,\nGood wishes and aspirations it ignites,\nAs we strive for excellence with all our might.\n\nBut when desire takes on a grosser form,\nIt turns into a noose that tightens, to transform,\nOur dreams into a suffocating prison,\nA trap that we fall into, without reason.\n\nThe noose of desire chokes and strangles,\nOur hopes and dreams, until they tangle,\nThe self, once free, now caught in a trap,\nA life once vibrant, now left to collapse.\n\nBut if we learn to apply desire well,\nIts power can lift us, and we can excel,\nThe noose becomes a tool, to create,\nA world where we can grow and innovate.\n\nSo, let us not fear desire's strength,\nBut instead use it, to go to great lengths,\nTo achieve all that we hope and aspire,\nAnd avoid the noose that brings only fire.\n\n-<em>Mani<\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desire, a force so ethereal and light, Can bring about transformation, so bright, Good wishes and aspirations it ignites, As we strive for excellence with all our might. But when desire takes on a grosser form, It turns into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/in-praise-of-mother-lalitha\/desire-the-noose-or-desire-the-creator\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":378,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}