{"id":2316,"date":"2009-09-29T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T09:48:46","slug":"amma-tree-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/2316\/","title":{"rendered":"Amma is a tree; we the flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/srutimenon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2318\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/09\/srutimenon.jpg\" alt=\"srutimenon\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Interview with\u00a0 Ms. Shruti Menon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selfless service, truthfulness, peace and grace \u2013 all combined together is &#8216;Amma&#8217;, according to me.\u00a0 I came to know of Amma after joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for my BSc course.\u00a0 I was very greatly inspired by Amma&#8217;s words of wisdom which motivated me to join as a volunteer for doing service on the occasion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amritapuri.org\/5165\/56-bday.aum\">Amma&#8217;s Birthday celebrations<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs Amma says, &#8216;An individual&#8217;s life is complete only when he\/she serves the needy and shares love and affection with all&#8217; \u2013 This aspect motivated me to join as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amritapuri.org\/5662\/vidya-09.aum\">volunteer to manage Vidyamritam kids<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m enjoying doing this service to such an extent that I do not realize how time passes in this <em>seva<\/em>.\u00a0 The sweet smiles, innocence and belongingness of these children are so wonderful, they generate a lot of positive energy in me.\u00a0 All this energy and inspiration is coming only from our beloved Amma, ultimately.\u00a0 I feel really satisfied that I have done something for Amma.\u00a0 I have decided to come back every year to do seva during Amma&#8217;s birthday celebrations.<br \/>\nThe happiness and satisfaction one gets from sharing love and serving others can&#8217;t be obtained from any other thing.\u00a0 Amma is like a huge tree of which we are all like small flowers.\u00a0 While serving mankind, we just blossom out on this Tree and spread Her fragrance all around.<\/p>\n<p>by K Raviteja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with\u00a0 Ms. Shruti Menon &#8220;Selfless service, truthfulness, peace and grace \u2013 all combined together is &#8216;Amma&#8217;, according to me.\u00a0 I came to know of Amma after joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for my BSc course.\u00a0 I was very greatly inspired by Amma&#8217;s words of wisdom which motivated me to join as a volunteer for doing [&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":[8],"tags":[283,281],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-birthday2009","tag-vidyamritam"],"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\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}