{"id":988,"date":"2018-12-27T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/?p=988"},"modified":"2018-12-27T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T12:29:24","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-hold-my-hands-and-lead-me-h-h-srimajjagadguru-shankaracharya-srisri-raghaveshwara-bharathi-mahaswamiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/shrisamsthana\/pearls-of-wisdom-hold-my-hands-and-lead-me-h-h-srimajjagadguru-shankaracharya-srisri-raghaveshwara-bharathi-mahaswamiji","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom : Hold my hands and Lead me &#8211; H.H. Srimajjagadguru Shankaracharya SriSri Raghaveshwara Bharathi Mahaswamiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once, a young child and her father had to cross a weak and long bridge. The father became worried about the safety of the child and told her-<br \/>\n\u201cHold my hands and walk slowly over the bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The child told the father-<br \/>\n\u201cPapa, you hold my hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Father asked-<br \/>\n\u201cChild, what is the difference between you holding my hand or I holding your hand?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The child replied-<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a lot of difference. If you hold my hand, since you are strong, you would not leave it under any circumstance. But I am weaker than you, if I hold your hand, I might have to leave your hand in some circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, if we surrender ourselves at the Lord\u2019s feet totally, no misfortune can affect us. It is not enough if we say, \u2018I am a devotee of God\u2019. God should accept us as His devotee. This should be our goal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, a young child and her father had to cross a weak and long bridge. The father became worried about the safety of the child and told her- \u201cHold my hands and walk slowly over the bridge.\u201d &nbsp; The child told the father- \u201cPapa, you hold my hand.\u201d &nbsp; Father asked- \u201cChild, what is the [&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-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shrisamsthana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagesrimukha.srisamsthana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}