{"id":2016,"date":"2025-04-22T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/flowers-in-spring-and-sat-chit-ananda\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:13:33","slug":"flowers-in-spring-and-sat-chit-ananda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/flowers-in-spring-and-sat-chit-ananda\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers in Spring and Sat Chit Ananda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if like flowers and tree leaves<br>\nreborn in spring, reincarnation is real.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if nobody ever goes to a hell,<br>\nan eternal damnation with no way out<\/p>\n<p>locked in to suffer endless torments forever<br>\nwithout any chances for reprieves.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if all sentient and maybe insentient forms<br>\nhad a chance to eventually live in eternal bliss conscious<\/p>\n<p>akin to the highest heaven, and that all stories<br>\nultimately had happy endings.<\/p>\n<p>Though I can\u2019t say if reincarnation is real or unreal,<br>\nand I wouldn\u2019t want to come back in the midst of<\/p>\n<p>a nuclear holocaust or something akin to Stalin\u2019s<br>\npurges or the Killing Fields of Cambodia<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of everyone eventually having redemption through various life corrections, a school for souls<\/p>\n<p>until they got it right, graduated, and reached the heights of spiritual perfection, <\/p>\n<p>what the Hindus call Sat Chit Ananda \u2013<br>\nEternal Bliss Consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if like flowers and tree leaves reborn in spring, reincarnation is real. Imagine if nobody ever goes to a hell, an eternal damnation with no way out locked in to suffer endless torments forever without any chances for reprieves. Imagine if all sentient and maybe insentient forms had a chance to eventually live in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/flowers-in-spring-and-sat-chit-ananda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}