19 Feb, Bengaluru<\/p>\n
I want to share a beautiful experience that I had yesterday in Bangalore.<\/p>\n
I had taken Amma’s darshan on 17th morning. I refrained from going for a hug on18th, even though I had been issued a darshan token. Instead, I asked permission to sit behind Amma on stage, and to my delight, I was allowed to do so for two whole hours!<\/p>\n
I sat behind Amma, watching her tireless hugging, and was thrilled when Swami Amritaswarupananda came on stage to sing bhajans. As he began to sing in his resonant voice, I found myself wishing he would sing the Tamil (my mother tongue) bhajan Ammave paarka pogalaam<\/em>. I kept glancing in his direction, and thought: “Swamiji, can you please sing that bhajan?” Swamiji sang many bhajans, all lovely ones, but my ‘request’ was not answered.<\/p>\n The urge was so strong, I almost felt like rising from my seat, going up to him and asking him to sing it. I chided myself, telling my mind: “Where do you think you are? At a radio or TV show? This is an ashram, there is no DJ here to answer your request. So shut up and sit quiet.”<\/p>\n But no, my mind just went on pleading, so I looked at (super busy) Amma and thought: Amma, could you please tell Swamiji to sing that bhajan? I love it!<\/p>\n Lo and behold! “Amma-a-a-a-a-!” sang out Swamiji, in the old familiar beginning to my ‘request’ song! Yes, he sang that bhajan within a half hour of my asking Amma to tell him to do so!<\/p>\n And Amma? Why, she was busy hugging people at the rate of one hug every 5 seconds!!!!<\/p>\n – Neeraja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 19 Feb, Bengaluru I want to share a beautiful experience that I had yesterday in Bangalore. I had taken Amma’s darshan on 17th morning. I refrained from going for a hug on18th, even though I had been issued a darshan token. Instead, I asked permission to sit behind Amma on stage, and to my delight, […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","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\/2686","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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}