{"id":76,"date":"2026-08-26T02:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-08-26T03:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:02:41","slug":"august-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"August 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-26-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He who has not first turned away from wickedness, who is not tranquil and subdued, and whose mind is not at peace, cannot attain Atman. It is realized only through the Knowledge of Reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the buddhi, being related to a distracted mind, loses it discrimination and therefore always remains impure, then the embodied soul never attains the goal, but enters into the round of births<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/?page_id=53\">Swami Nikhilananda \u2013 The Principal Upanishads<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He who has not first turned away from wickedness, who is not tranquil and subdued, and whose mind is not at peace, cannot attain Atman. It is realized only through the Knowledge of Reality If the buddhi, being related to a distracted mind, loses it discrimination and therefore always remains impure, then the embodied soul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;August 26, 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samnyasin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}