{"id":179497,"date":"2026-08-20T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/?p=179497"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:37:04","slug":"the-strange-blossom-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/the-strange-blossom-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"the strange blossom of light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">My soul open thy eyes,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Watch the long-expected birth, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Of the marvellous bloom of tomorrow,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Concealed from the vulgar inquisitive sight,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> A<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">lmost invisible in the shadow of austere trees<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Old as the mountains and self assured of their immunity<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Watch it open silently petal by petal<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Unsuspected in a neglected corner of thy freehold.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Stanger, little understood, <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">disdained by the wise,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">U<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">nwelcome,m<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">ocked and disowned by the crowd<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">The gentle humble Guest can hardly lift her head<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">With the mortal weight of the past on her breast,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">the victorious yesterday lives on gloriously <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">for a while,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Trembling inside now certain of its death<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">My soul do not be duped by the faintness of the early glow<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">It brings in its wake the ocean-swelll of liquid gold,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">The end of a perpetual night, the sun that does not set anymore<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">And the unveiled blissful presence of the beloved Mother Divine<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Open wide thy doors to that stange distant Light<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">And nourish with the white purity of inner fire<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">The wonder-bud of splendour in the mire of earth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">****************<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Niranjan 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My soul open thy eyes, Watch the long-expected birth, Of the marvellous bloom of tomorrow, Concealed from the vulgar inquisitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179497","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\/179497","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=179497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179499,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179497\/revisions\/179499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherland-guharoy.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}