{"id":2263,"date":"2009-09-28T17:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2009-09-28T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:24:58","slug":"light-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/2263\/","title":{"rendered":"Amma, the Light of my Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/radhakrishnan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2264\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"radhakrishnan\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/radhakrishnan.jpg\" alt=\"radhakrishnan\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>26 sep 2009<\/p>\n<p>Sri Radhakrishnan is, by profession, a carpenter.\u00a0 He reasons out that Amma\u2019s generosity and selflessness have drawn him to Amma who is the light in his life.\u00a0 Amma had given him a new home where he lives presently, when his own home was completely destroyed by the Tsunami, some four years ago.\u00a0 He recalls Amma\u2019s\u00a0 assistance to his family during those days.\u00a0 Amma had, very generously, thrown open her ashram gates to everyone in the locality, who needed help, without distinctions of religion or caste.<\/p>\n<p>He states that Amma is the author of a tremendous change in the Vallikcavu region.\u00a0 For all development here in the past few years, they owe them to Amma.\u00a0 Amma has also brought about a transformation in his life and that of his neighbors.\u00a0 Radhakrishnan feels that Amma\u2019s eagerness to improve the condition of the masses is very poorly understood by many in the local society.\u00a0 He finds himself very lucky to be also &#8216;related\u2019 to Amma \u2013 Amma happens to be his sister\u2019s classmate. He is now happily settled in life with his wife and two children, thanks to the Grace of Amma.<\/p>\n<p>by Partha Pratim Boral &amp;\u00a0 Maheshwar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 sep 2009 Sri Radhakrishnan is, by profession, a carpenter.\u00a0 He reasons out that Amma\u2019s generosity and selflessness have drawn him to Amma who is the light in his life.\u00a0 Amma had given him a new home where he lives presently, when his own home was completely destroyed by the Tsunami, some four years ago.\u00a0 [&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":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"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\/2263","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=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}