{"id":765,"date":"2018-12-11T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/?p=765"},"modified":"2018-12-10T22:44:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:14:43","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-sacrifice-results-in-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/shrisamsthana\/pearls-of-wisdom-sacrifice-results-in-reward","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom : Sacrifice Results in Reward &#8211; Series of discourse by H.H. Srimajjagadguru Shankaracharya SriSri Raghaveshwara Bharathi Mahaswamiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a mother pulled out the tiny plants which were growing \u00a0in small pots and replanted them in a spacious garden. The child who was watching this asked the mother-<br \/>\n\u201cMa, why do you remove these \u00a0plants and relocate them in a huge unfamiliar garden?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mother replied-<br \/>\n\u201cChild, if the plant continues to live in the small pot, it will not grow \u00a0big and strong. If I remove it from there and replant in a spacious garden and provide water, soil and manure, it will grow big and healthy \u00a0and yield plenty of flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If we wish to lead a fruitful life, we need to move out of our small world into the larger world of opportunities and risks. We cannot be like the frog in the well. We should not hesitate to make a few sacrifices in order to achieve great things. Sometimes even death may yield great reward in form of a superior birth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Translated by : Dr. Sharada Jayagovind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a mother pulled out the tiny plants which were growing \u00a0in small pots and replanted them in a spacious garden. The child who was watching this asked the mother- \u201cMa, why do you remove these \u00a0plants and relocate them in a huge unfamiliar garden?\u201d &nbsp; The mother replied- \u201cChild, if the plant continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shrisamsthana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}