{"id":420,"date":"2007-07-31T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/420\/mass-of-human-heat\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:34:57","slug":"mass-of-human-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/420\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass of human Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">Saturday July 28 7:30 pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">What a glorious afternoon in  Santiago. Warm, it feels like high 70\u2019s, slightest of breeze, a perfect  day to hang out with a few thousand of your friends. I took a lunch  break about 1:30, and there were already several hundred in line outdoors  for evening darshan.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">When I left the hall at 4:30, the outdoor line was several  thousand.   By the start of atma puja,  there was a line of cars trying to get into the parking lot, a line  of people outside, and the hall filled, and people being seated in the  nearly 100 foot deep area behind\/alongside the stage. It felt like a  lot of power being radiated as She went through the puja blessing the  water. I am writing this during the Spanish translation of Her talk<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">The other thing that  struck me as I came into the hall was heat \u2013 I had to remove a couple  of layers (I\u2019ve been wearing several undershirts, a sweater, and a  sweatshirt at night in the hall. The table I sit at to help out is against  a huge metal door, like a garage door, that has been letting in an arctic-feeling  breeze). The people seem very sweet in general, and not aggressive about  lines, etc. There have been a couple of computer thefts,  but these are small dark  spots amongst a beautiful experience. They have just opened one of the  garage-type doors in the far rear of the hall, letting in cool air.  It reminds me of the San Ramon ashram hall with its open upper windows  to let out the mass of human heat. Unlike San Ramon, the people here  all have winter coats etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">9:00  Chaos. Loads of  people milling around, asking for tokens, others saying they are sick  and where can they get in line. The passageway in front of our table  is full of people<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-family: Times New Roman\">Amma looks gorgeous in a deep blue with purple tinge sari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shambugh , from Chile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday July 28 7:30 pm What a glorious afternoon in Santiago. Warm, it feels like high 70\u2019s, slightest of breeze, a perfect day to hang out with a few thousand of your friends. I took a lunch break about 1:30, and there were already several hundred in line outdoors for evening darshan. When I left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-420","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\/420","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}