{"id":1927,"date":"2014-12-23T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2014-12-23T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:04:44","slug":"petal-21-yoga-is-neither-beauty-of-form-nor-the-elixir-of-life-it-is-the-union-of-the-self-and-the-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/2014\/12\/petal-21-yoga-is-neither-beauty-of-form-nor-the-elixir-of-life-it-is-the-union-of-the-self-and-the-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Petal 21: YOGA IS NEITHER BEAUTY OF FORM NOR THE ELIXIR OF LIFE; IT IS THE UNION OF THE SELF AND THE SUPREME."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sun Sep 28th, 2014 04:20pm Washington Square Park, NYC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1931\" alt=\"DSC_0326\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_03261-332x500.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_03261-332x500.jpg 332w, https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_03261-624x938.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_03261.jpg 665w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1932\" alt=\"DSC_0329\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0329-500x310.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"310\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1937\" alt=\"DSC_0336\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0336-500x346.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"346\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1953\" alt=\"DSC_0338\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0338-500x315.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0338-500x315.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0338-624x394.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0338.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1958\" alt=\"DSC_0339\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0339-500x285.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0339-500x285.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0339-624x355.jpg 624w, https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0339.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOGNITION:<br \/>\n<\/strong>In the space after the exhalation&#8230;Stop. All is forgotten. I suppose this is the space in which the body gains its flexibility and perhaps those other things that are so sought after in our world today. However, this is precisely the space in which all of those things lose meaning. It is a space of serene stillness. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014Sadhya<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1938\" alt=\"DSC_0342\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0342-500x407.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"407\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1939\" alt=\"DSC_0345\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0345-500x352.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"352\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1940\" alt=\"DSC_0347\" src=\"http:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0347-500x332.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun Sep 28th, 2014 04:20pm Washington Square Park, NYC RECOGNITION: In the space after the exhalation&#8230;Stop. All is forgotten. I suppose this is the space in which the body gains its flexibility and perhaps those other things that are so sought after in our world today. However, this is precisely the space in which all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahayogi.org\/sahasrara\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}