{"id":2522,"date":"2007-04-24T18:51:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/selected-poems\/poems-teachers\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T19:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T19:11:37","slug":"poems-teachers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/?page_id=2522","title":{"rendered":"Poems on teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Your mind has a flood of questions.<br \/>\nThere is but one teacher<br \/>\nWho can answer them<br \/>\nWho is that teacher?<br \/>\nYour silence-loving heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Your teachers<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let the sky<br \/>\nBecome<br \/>\nYour teacher.<br \/>\nYou will learn<br \/>\nHow to serve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let the moon<br \/>\nBecome<br \/>\nYour teacher.<br \/>\nYou will learn<br \/>\nHow to love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let the sun<br \/>\nBecome<br \/>\nYour teacher.<br \/>\nYou will learn<br \/>\nHow to become.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My Five Teachers<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My poetry teacher taught me<br \/>\nHow to cry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My philosophy teacher taught me<br \/>\nHow to dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My religion teacher taught me<br \/>\nHow to bind life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My yoga teacher taught me<br \/>\nHow to find Love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My liberation teacher taught me<br \/>\nHow to create Peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">O teacher of Hope,<br \/>\nI know your name.<br \/>\nYour name is Faith.<br \/>\nO teacher of Faith,<br \/>\nI know your name.<br \/>\nYour name is God&#8217;s Grace.<br \/>\nO teacher of God&#8217;s Grace,<br \/>\nYou have a special name.<br \/>\nYour name is God&#8217;s Silence-Reality<br \/>\nManifested on earth<br \/>\nFor humanity&#8217;s salvation-light<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Sri Chinmoy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Golden Boat<\/li>\n<li>The Wings of Joy<\/li>\n<li>Transcendence Perfection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":292,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522","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=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522\/revisions\/6387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoypoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}