{"id":178721,"date":"2026-04-12T05:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/?p=178721"},"modified":"2026-04-12T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:47:10","slug":"the-mother-commentaries-on-the-dhammapada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/the-mother-commentaries-on-the-dhammapada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mother- Commentaries on the Dhammapada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">About Nirvana<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But\u00a0 what we\u00a0 consider here as the true Nirvana is the disappearance of the ego into the splendour of the Supreme. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And this way is what I call the positive way, the self-giving that is integral, total, perfect without reserve, without bargaining.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the mere fact of not thinking of oneself, not existeing for oneself, referring nothing to oneself, thinking only of what<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is supremely beautiful, luminous, delightful, powerful, compassionate and infinite, there is such a profound delight<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">that nothing can be compared to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the only thing that deserves&#8230; that is worthy of being attempted. All the rest is only marking time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The difference is between climbing a mountain by going round and round, slowly, laboriously, step by step for hundreds of years<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and spreading invisible wings and soaring straight to the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Mother, 1958<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Nirvana But\u00a0 what we\u00a0 consider here as the true Nirvana is the disappearance of the ego into the splendour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178723,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178721\/revisions\/178723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}