{"id":1746,"date":"2009-05-17T03:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2009-05-17T03:30:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T22:00:13","slug":"tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/1746\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell me, what shall I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly around midnight Amma surprised everyone by coming out to swim! The usual fun and games followed: Amma pushing everyone into the pool, coming up with funny stories, singing bhajans etc.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Amma came for bhajans in between receiving ashramites in her room.<\/p>\n<p>She sang the following bhajans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dayakaro Tum Hi<\/li>\n<li>Viraha Ki Badal<\/li>\n<li>Vedambike<\/li>\n<li>Parihasa Patramayi<\/li>\n<li>Japu Me Sada<\/li>\n<li>Santamayi Ozhukatte<\/li>\n<li>Ennute Jivita nouka<\/li>\n<li>Om Namah Shivaya<\/li>\n<li>Amma Amma Taye<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During the song <em>Ennute Jivita<\/em> the air was filled with devotion. The lyrics are very touching:<\/p>\n<p>O Mother, my boat is sinking here in the ocean of this world<br \/>\nFiercely the hurricane of delusion rages on every side<\/p>\n<p>Clumsy is my helmsman, the mind\u2026Stubborn my six oarsmen, the passions<\/p>\n<p>Into a merciless wind I sailed my boat and now it is sinking\u2026split is the rudder of devotion<\/p>\n<p>Tattered is the sail of faith\u2026into my boat the waters are pouring<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, what shall I do? For with my failing eyes alas, nothing but darkness do I see<br \/>\nHere in the waves I will swim, O Mother,\u00a0 and cling to the raft of Thy Name !<\/p>\n<p>Vishwanath<\/p>\n<p>16 May 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly around midnight Amma surprised everyone by coming out to swim! The usual fun and games followed: Amma pushing everyone into the pool, coming up with funny stories, singing bhajans etc. Earlier Amma came for bhajans in between receiving ashramites in her room. She sang the following bhajans: Dayakaro Tum Hi Viraha Ki Badal Vedambike [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary"],"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\/1746","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=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}