{"id":1002,"date":"2011-02-15T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2011-02-14T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:24:47","slug":"the-esraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"The Esraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Esraj, an Indian stringed instrument, was Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s favourite instrument; on the Esraj Sri Chinmoy offered many soulful performances of meditative music.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O esraj, I am all gratitude to you<br \/>\nFor bringing to the fore<br \/>\nThe divine musician in me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"bookexcerpt\">Sri Chinmoy, <sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-1002-1' id='fnref-1002-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(1002)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/div>\n<div>Sri Chinmoy would often play the Esraj before lifting people in his special programme &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoy.org\/service\/lifting_up_the_world\">Lifting Up the World With a Oneness Heart<\/a>&#8216;. Sri Chinmoy felt by playing the Esraj he could offer a meditative consciousness to people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At Radio Sri Chinmoy, we have a new Esraj Recording &#8211; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosrichinmoy.org\/radio\/444\/\">Maestro Sri Chinmoy plays the Esraj.<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003 aligncenter\" title=\"esraj-pavitrata\" src=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/esraj-pavitrata.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Chinmoy playing the Esraj. Photo by Pavitrata.<\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-1002'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-1002-1'> Sri Chinmoy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srichinmoylibrary.com\/books\/1329\"><em>Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 16,<\/em><\/a> New York: Agni Press,     1999. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-1002-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Esraj, an Indian stringed instrument, was Sri Chinmoy&#8217;s favourite instrument; on the Esraj Sri Chinmoy offered many soulful performances of meditative music. O esraj, I am all gratitude to you For bringing to the fore The divine musician in me. Sri Chinmoy, 1 Sri Chinmoy would often play the Esraj before lifting people in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=1002\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Esraj&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}