{"id":569,"date":"2008-02-02T23:04:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T03:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innuendo.foolish-house.com\/items\/date\/2008\/02\/02\/a-prayer-to-my-mother-a-gift-from-a-friend\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T23:04:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T03:04:48","slug":"a-prayer-to-my-mother-a-gift-from-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/2008\/02\/02\/a-prayer-to-my-mother-a-gift-from-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"A prayer to my Mother; a gift from a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Bow to Mahakali if you see a vulture, a she-jackal, a raven, an<br \/>\nosprey, a hawk, a crow or a black cat, saying: &#8216;O Origin of all,<br \/>\ngreatly terrifying one, with dishevelled hair, fond of flesh<br \/>\noffering, charming one of Kulachara, I bow to you, Shankara&#8217;s beloved! &#8216; &#8220;<\/em><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;O Mother, even a dullard becomes a poet who meditates upon thee<br \/>\nraimented with space, three-eyed, creatrix of the three worlds, whose<br \/>\nwaist is beautiful with a girdle made of numbers of dead men&#8217;s arms,<br \/>\nand who on the breast of a corpse, as thy couch in the cremation<br \/>\nground, enjoyest Mahakala<\/em>.&#8221; &#8212; Karpuradistotra, VII (Woodroffe tr)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am Great Nature, consciousness, bliss, the quintessence, devotedly<br \/>\npraised. Where I am, there are no Brahma, Hara, Shambhu or other<br \/>\ndevas, nor is there creation, maintenance or dissolution. Where I am,<br \/>\nthere is no attachment, happiness, sadness, liberation, goodness,<br \/>\nfaith, atheism, guru or disciple.&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; Kulachudamani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bow to Mahakali if you see a vulture, a she-jackal, a raven, an osprey, a hawk, a crow or a black cat, saying: &#8216;O Origin of all, greatly terrifying one, with dishevelled hair, fond of flesh offering, charming one of Kulachara, I bow to you, Shankara&#8217;s beloved! &#8216; &#8220; &#8220;O Mother, even a dullard becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}