{"id":199,"date":"2007-12-22T11:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/199\/blessed-children\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:21:31","slug":"blessed-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/199\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>21 dec, Kodungallur &#8211; bharata yatra 2007<\/p>\n<p>When Amma reached Kodungallur it was already 6 pm. the hostel children of Amrita Vidyalayam welcomed Amma with padpuja. You could hear them say &#8216;I washed amma&#8217;s feet!&#8217; &#8216;i put chandana!&#8217; &#8216;i did kumkum!&#8217; &#8216;i did the arati&#8217;&#8230; etc. These kids are really blessed to be in amma&#8217;s schools and imbibe those subtle spiritual values from a very young age.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Amma talked to them. she asked &#8220;are you not feeling sad that you have to leave your family and your own brothers and sisters? Is staying in the hostel difficult?&#8221; One boy (kishore) said: &#8220;This is my home, all of them (pointing to the fellow students around) are my bothers and sisters. As it is mentioned in the national pledge we take: India is my country, all indians are my brothers and sisters &#8220;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; dhyanamrita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 dec, Kodungallur &#8211; bharata yatra 2007 When Amma reached Kodungallur it was already 6 pm. the hostel children of Amrita Vidyalayam welcomed Amma with padpuja. You could hear them say &#8216;I washed amma&#8217;s feet!&#8217; &#8216;i put chandana!&#8217; &#8216;i did kumkum!&#8217; &#8216;i did the arati&#8217;&#8230; etc. These kids are really blessed to be in amma&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-with-amma"],"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\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}