{"id":1540,"date":"2008-12-23T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/library\/the-upanishads\/unreal-real\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T13:41:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:41:48","slug":"unreal-real","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=1540","title":{"rendered":"From the Unreal to the Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>Transliteration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Asato ma sad gamaya&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>Translation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Lead me from the unreal to the Real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Lead me from darkness to Light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Lead me from death to Immortality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>Comment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">The unreal in us desires the pleasure-life of the finite. The Real in us aspires for the God-Life of the Infinite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Darkness is the discoverer of the doubting and frustrated mind. Light is the discoverer of the aspiring and dedicated heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Death&amp;#151;where is the cat? Meowing nowhere. Immortality&amp;#151;where is the lion? Roaring all-where.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\">Excerpt from: &nbsp;<a href=\"..\/the_upanishads\">The Upanishads<\/a>: The Crown Of India&#8217;s Soul by <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a>. <br \/>\nFirst published by Agni Press in 1974.<br \/>\nReprinted with permission of <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/sri_chinmoy\">Sri Chinmoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><strong>Links<\/strong><\/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; (<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/selected_poems\">Selected Poems<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/poems_topic\">Poems by Topic<\/a>)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center\">&nbsp;(<a href=\"..\/https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/sri-chinmoy-poetry\">Sri Chinmoy Poetry -Home<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540","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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540\/revisions\/3919"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}