{"id":1186,"date":"2009-01-02T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T17:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T14:16:20","slug":"belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/1186\/","title":{"rendered":"Belonging to Amma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 Jan 09<br \/>\nIt was a blissful way to start a new year- with a feeling of belongingness to the Divine Mother. It was a small, intimate moment with Amma during my darshan on New Year\u2019s Eve that made me feel very special. The moment was so wonderful because even though I have had so many similar moments with Amma, every new time is a unique experience in itself.<\/p>\n<p>I was in front of Amma on 31st December, and she drew me into her arms and held me so tight that I could feel her elbows on my back while she was talking to someone on her side. She held me like that for sometime and I felt I was really merging into Her, as if there was no Two, only One \u2013 so tightly had she entwined me in her arms! She kissed me, whispered into my ears \u2018 Molutty, Ente Molutty\u2019 (Baby, My Baby), and I felt each word to be a powerful flow of grace.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled into my eyes as I got up, pointed to her side and asked me to sit next to her. I was about to walk away, obviously looking forward to sitting next to her, and planning to tell the stage monitor about it, when Amma called me again and said \u2018 Mole, you sit here ,right next to me\u2019. I was in the seventh heaven of delight, as I sat very close to Amma\u2019s peetham and She followed me with her eyes as I settled in my place. I sat close to Her in mind and body &#8211; glad to be Her baby, glad to belong to Her, the Divine Mother!<\/p>\n<p>-Sreedevi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Jan 09 It was a blissful way to start a new year- with a feeling of belongingness to the Divine Mother. It was a small, intimate moment with Amma during my darshan on New Year\u2019s Eve that made me feel very special. The moment was so wonderful because even though I have had so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary","category-darshan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}