{"id":3657,"date":"2019-04-27T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2021-12-17T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T06:09:22","slug":"may-you-again-become-a-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/may-you-again-become-a-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"May you again become a mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8-728x410.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8-364x205.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/maxresdefault-8.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mouse was very much harassed by a cat, and therefore he approached a saintly person to request to become a cat.<\/p>\n<p>When the mouse became a cat, he was harassed by a dog, and then, being blessed by the sadhu, when he became a dog, he was harassed by a tiger.<\/p>\n<p>When by the grace of the saint he became a tiger, he stared at the saintly person, who then asked him,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<br \/>\nThe tiger replied,<br \/>\n\u201cI want to eat you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the saintly person cursed him, saying, \u201cMay you again become a mouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the blessings of the saints we become strong with knowledge\u00a0and spirituality, but then if we think that now we can disregard or not respect them enough, the result will be that we loose everything and go back to the miserable state that we had before encountering them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manonatha Dasa (ACBSP)<br \/>\n27 apr 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mouse was very much harassed by a cat, and therefore he approached a saintly person to request to become a cat. When the mouse became a cat, he was harassed by a dog, and then, &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/may-you-again-become-a-mouse\/\" aria-label=\"May you again become a mouse\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 19:18:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}