{"id":5978,"date":"2010-06-26T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T07:37:00","slug":"the-razors-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5978","title":{"rendered":"The Razor&#8217;s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/D9ZyrJWh338&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Somerset Maugham came to India to learn about her philosophy and the quintessence of the Upanishads he wrote as the &#8220;Razor&#8217;s Edge&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Law of the Way is as dangerous as the Razor&#8217;s Edge. ( Kshurasya dhara nishitha durathyaya durgam pathasthat kavayo vadanti ).<\/p>\n<p>Says the Upanishadic verse<\/p>\n<p>Arise, awake<br \/>And stop not till the Goal is reached !<br \/>Like the Edge of the Razor<br \/>So is the path difficult to tread !<\/p>\n<p>Those who have travelled that Path and reached the Goal triumphant, to them belongs eternal fame !<\/p>\n<p>They alone are the conquerors<br \/>The conquerors of the Spirit !<br \/>The Self Actualised Poets<br \/>Whose fame body knoweth no disease !<\/p>\n<p><!-- Begin: AdBrite --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\"><!--<br \/>--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbrite.com\/mb\/commerce\/purchase_form.php?opid=786432&amp;afsid=1\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-color:#CCCCCC;border:none;padding:0;margin:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/files.adbrite.com\/mb\/images\/adbrite-your-ad-here-banner.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Your Ad Here\" width=\"11\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><!-- End: AdBrite --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somerset Maugham came to India to learn about her philosophy and the quintessence of the Upanishads he wrote as the &#8220;Razor&#8217;s Edge&#8221;. The Law of the Way is as dangerous as the Razor&#8217;s Edge. ( Kshurasya dhara nishitha durathyaya durgam pathasthat kavayo vadanti ). Says the Upanishadic verse Arise, awakeAnd stop not till the Goal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=5978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Razor&#8217;s Edge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5978","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\/5978","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}