{"id":7601,"date":"2014-02-01T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T07:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2017-09-11T19:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:46:13","slug":"heroism-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/heroism-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"The heroism of the spirit <small>&#8211; the engine of evolution for an ideals-driven hero<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True heroism is not about winning over nature, winning over other human beings, or even winning against one\u2019s limitations.<\/p>\n<p>True heroism is about jumping from one level of faith (atma sraddha) in one\u2019s infinite capacities to the next level of \u2018atma sraddha\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When one jumps in such a manner \u2013 everything about oneself undergoes a change \u2013 one has discovered a new world of human possibilities in the new state of \u2018atma sraddha\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The heroism of the physical is thus about overcoming obstacles, achieving new limits, and developing new capacities.<\/p>\n<p>The heroism of the spirit is about letting go of the faith one has in the current state of being and going through the \u201cdark night\u201d of faithlessness for even as little as a brief second to discover a new state of being and a new deeper order of \u2018atma sraddha\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True heroism is not about winning over nature, winning over other human beings, or even winning against one\u2019s limitations. True heroism is about jumping from one level of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7601\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}