{"id":5363,"date":"2007-11-20T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:15:30","slug":"suffering-a-must-for-the-redeemer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"Suffering, a must for the Redeemer !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_65HA53jcYIU\/R1_g0cgTfsI\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/ItFCJz87854\/s1600-h\/12planetsgx8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143076491089903298\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_65HA53jcYIU\/R1_g0cgTfsI\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/ItFCJz87854\/s320\/12planetsgx8.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Aurobindo wroteHe who would bring the heavens here<br \/>\nMust descend himself into clay<br \/>\nAnd the burden earthly nature bear<br \/>\nAnd tread the dolorous way !<\/p>\n<p>Coercing my Godhead I have come<br \/>\nInto this sordid earth<br \/>\nIgnorant, laboring, human grown,<br \/>\nBetwixt the gates of birth and death !<\/p>\n<p>Transforming Earth into a Heaven is difficult; and we have to sacrifice many personal comforts for such a noble purpose. We have to understand that this is the Law of the Way. Only after the shedding of all mortal dross can we be pure; and only by becoming pure can we hope to get Self Actualisation<\/p>\n<p>In the void of Mind involute<br \/>\nThe fleeting Universe rises and floats<br \/>\nAnd sinks back into the current &#8220;I&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vivekananda &#8211; The Hymn of Cosmic Consciousness<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurobindo wroteHe who would bring the heavens here Must descend himself into clay And the burden earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way ! Coercing my Godhead I have come Into this sordid earth Ignorant, laboring, human grown, Betwixt the gates of birth and death ! Transforming Earth into a Heaven is difficult; and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suffering, a must for the Redeemer !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55546,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/55546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}