{"id":8255,"date":"2009-09-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/21\/daily-inspiration-380\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T12:00:00","slug":"daily-inspiration-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/21\/daily-inspiration-380\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/9\/22.shtml\">www.hinduismtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An old brahmin priest spoke with his Lord Siva about heaven and hell (which is called Narakaloka in Sanskrit and differs from other hells in not being eternal, but a temporary state of souls between births). The Lord said to the aging pandit, &#8220;Come, I will show you hell.&#8221; They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of wonderful smelling vegetable curry. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving. Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible. &#8220;Come, now I will show you heaven,&#8221; Siva said after a while. They entered another room, identical to the first the pot of luscious curry, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But everyone was happy and well-nourished. &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand,&#8221; said the Brahmin. &#8220;Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room where everything was exactly the same?&#8221; Lord Siva smiled, &#8220;Ah, it is simple,&#8221; He said. &#8220;Here they have learned to feed each other.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hinduismtoday.com An old brahmin priest spoke with his Lord Siva about heaven and hell (which is called Narakaloka in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}