{"id":821,"date":"2014-11-25T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2026-03-10T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:29:06","slug":"seven-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/25\/seven-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Art-Full is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"836\" src=\"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/7up.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/7up.png 900w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/7up-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/7up-768x713.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Story-Text is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Story-Text is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/meta>Once in Vrindavan My spiritual master was drinking soft drink and joking with his devotees. Counting his fingers Like you do when you chant the Gayatri Mantra.<br>&#8220;Maha Jana Tapa Satya, Seven up&#8221;<br>We all laughed as he was referring to going beyond the upper planetary systems of the Vedic\u00a0cosmology and entering the realm of Vaikuntha\u00a0and beyond that Goloka.<br>His sense of humor was so delightful, and contemporary \u00a0transcending the superstition of orthodox culture with playful affection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in Vrindavan My spiritual master was drinking soft drink and joking with his devotees. Counting his fingers Like you do when you chant the Gayatri Mantra.&#8220;Maha Jana Tapa Satya, Seven up&#8221;We all laughed as he was referring to going beyond the upper planetary systems of the Vedic\u00a0cosmology and entering the realm of Vaikuntha\u00a0and beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}