{"id":1144,"date":"2007-04-24T18:51:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/the-dance-of-life\/dance-of-life-part-6\/alas-it-is-too-late\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:41:38","slug":"alas-it-is-too-late","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=1144","title":{"rendered":"Alas, It Is Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nFighting lessons from Sri Rama?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nPlaying lessons from Sri Krishna?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nSuffering lessons from the Buddha?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nForgiving lessons from the Christ?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nDancing lessons from Sri Chaitanya?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take <br \/>\nLong-distance walking lessons from <br \/>\nSri Shankara?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhy did I not take<br \/>\nCrying lessons from Sri Ramakrishna?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nStruggling lessons from Swamiji?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I not take<br \/>\nSurrendering lessons from Sri Chinmoy?<br \/>\nAlas, it is too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Excerpt from <a href=\"..\/dance_of_life_part_6\">&#8216;Dance of Life Part 6&#8217;<\/a> by&nbsp; <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Copyright &copy; <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a> 1975<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Links<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/sri-chinmoy-poetry\">Library of Sri Chinmoy Poetry<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/selected_poems\">Selected Poems<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/poems_topic\">Poems by Topic<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 370.5pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1134,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1144\/revisions\/3787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}