{"id":6263,"date":"2026-03-17T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/daily-meditation-for-march-17-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T10:48:24","slug":"daily-meditation-for-march-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/daily-meditation-for-march-17-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Meditation for March 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                    Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this Yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in the material is a very important part of it \u2013 and even an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a loose absence of true control. Mastery of materials refers to the correct and careful use of things and self-control in their use. Coercive oppression (fasting also falls under this head) is on the same level as free enjoyment; In both cases, the desire persists: in the one it is nourished by enjoyment, in the other it remains latent and is excited by repression. &#8211; Sri Aurobindo\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                    <i>&#8211; meditation of the day<\/i>\n                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asceticism for its own sake is not the ideal of this Yoga, but self-control in the vital and right order in the material is a very important part of it \u2013 and even an ascetic discipline is better for our purpose than a loose absence of true control. Mastery of materials refers to the correct<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[98,96,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-6263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-meditation","8":"tag-daily","9":"tag-march","10":"tag-meditation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6265,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions\/6265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}