{"id":62,"date":"2007-11-12T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipcarrgomm.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/12\/gymnosophy-for-beginners\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:04:13","slug":"gymnosophy-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/gymnosophy-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnosophy for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key figure for students of Gymnosophy (from <em>gymnos<\/em> &#8211; naked and <em>sophia<\/em> &#8211; wisdom) is Dattatreya. Here he is in the Avadhoot Gita:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With fuel and without fuel, I am always burning; With smoke and without smoke, I am always glowing; with flame and without flame, I am always shining; I am immortality in knowledge, I am equality in essence, I am like the sky. I burn the faggots of action and inaction; I burn the faggots of pleasure and pain; I burn the faggots of him who adores his body, I burn the faggots of him who ignores his body; I am immortality in knowledge, I am equality in essence, I am like the sky. I am fire that burns religion and irreligion, I am fire that burns merit and sin, I am fire that burns bondage and privilege, I am immortality in knowledge, I am equality in essence, I am like the sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(The title for this entry is foolish &#8211; it should, of course, be &#8216;Advanced Gymnosophy&#8217;. I&#8217;m off now to burn a &#8216;faggot of inaction&#8217;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key figure for students of Gymnosophy (from gymnos &#8211; naked and sophia &#8211; wisdom) is Dattatreya. Here he is in the Avadhoot Gita: &#8220;With fuel and without fuel, I am always burning; With smoke and without smoke, I am always glowing; with flame and without flame, I am always shining; I am immortality in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4TLSS-10","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipcarr-gomm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}