{"id":2304,"date":"2009-10-02T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2009-10-03T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T17:32:26","slug":"east-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/2304\/","title":{"rendered":"East or West, Amma is Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2306\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"sulma\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/sulma.jpg\" alt=\"sulma\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>&#8220;Oh, unimitated and inimitable Amma!<br \/>\nWhat shall I say on her?<br \/>\nWords cannot describe Her<br \/>\nAmma is Amma,<br \/>\nShe is what She is,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>were the words of\u00a0 Ms Sulma from California.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago she had her first Darsan of Amma at Mexico.\u00a0 For the past twelve years she has been here in Vallikkavu as a carpenter.<br \/>\n&#8220;How do you like your job here?&#8217; I asked.<br \/>\n&#8220;Amma said &#8211; be a\u00a0 carpenter here &#8211; and here I am!&#8221;\u00a0 She enjoys this service.<\/p>\n<p>The other members of her family too are devotees of Amma and do seva at the Mexico Ashram.<br \/>\nMs Sulma says she loves to work among Indians.\u00a0 She loves her stay in the Ashram.\u00a0 To Sulma, East or West, service to Amma is the best.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed by &#8211; Lal Bihari Prasad and Rahul Chokarwarthi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oh, unimitated and inimitable Amma! What shall I say on her? Words cannot describe Her Amma is Amma, She is what She is,&#8221; were the words of\u00a0 Ms Sulma from California. Fifteen years ago she had her first Darsan of Amma at Mexico.\u00a0 For the past twelve years she has been here in Vallikkavu as [&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-2304","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\/2304","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=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}