{"id":4373,"date":"2011-10-02T23:07:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2011-10-02T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T17:38:11","slug":"dream-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2011\/4373\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you believe in the realisation of dreams?\u00a0 Does a dream ever come true?\u00a0 Have you ever met a stranger who appeared in your dreams?\u00a0 If you asked these questions to anyone\u2026 they would surely be puzzled and amazed.\u00a0 We asked the same questions to Ghanshyam and his response was spontaneous and affirmative.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ghanshyam, a native of Spain is a resident of Amritapuri Ashram since five years.\u00a0 He shared with us his unbelievable experience of how dreams do come true in real life.\u00a0 Here is his narration:
\n“I’m from a small village in Spain.\u00a0 The source of income for the family was an herbal retail outlet that was owned by us.\u00a0 This happened when I was in Germany and my mother, father and sister were in Spain.\u00a0 One day a lady came to our shop and gave a pamphlet about a spiritual leader.\u00a0 The pamphlet stated that some spiritual leader from India called AMMA was visiting Barcelona.\u00a0 As my sister scrolled further below, her eyes caught the glimpse of the picture of \u2018the lady in white attire’ which she had dreamt only last night\u2026.. Her amazement knew no bounds: can a dream come true so closely and this soon, she wondered!<\/p>\n

My family immediately booked their tickets to Barcelona.\u00a0 I couldn’t go with them as I was busy with my work in Germany.\u00a0 My sister shared her experience with me later as to how they all had a good time with Amma, had Amma’s \u2018darsan’ and attended a long session of \u2018bhajan’.\u00a0 This made me recollect a story I had read somewhere about a girl who was made out of water and changed the world from the then current state of animosity, unrest and hatred to a state of peace and harmony.\u00a0 An unusual urge took root in me that I should see this \u2018Amma’.\u00a0 Was it a matter of coincidence that at this same time I also came to know that there were less expensive and special discount tickets available to those who wanted to attend Amma’s 50th birthday celebrations<\/a> in Kochi and my family eagerly reserved these tickets to Kochi.<\/p>\n

We landed in Kochi as per schedule and I was blessed to have Amma’s darshan.\u00a0 After seeing Amma, I felt something unusual and special as if my own dream of something had come true, that a difference had been carved out.\u00a0 I decided to leave my job, family and I to join Amma’s Ashram.\u00a0 Now I’m involved in recycling of waste and enjoying the work more and more every day.\u00a0 It is like bliss, living a life which I had dreamt of…\u00a0 Anyone can be sure that a dream is\u00a0 always a pointer to some reality\u2026 only, you must have trust in it and patience to wait for it to take shape and happen\u2026 !”<\/p>\n

– Amrita Nandakumar, Chitra and Lakshmi PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you believe in the realisation of dreams?\u00a0 Does a dream ever come true?\u00a0 Have you ever met a stranger who appeared in your dreams?\u00a0 If you asked these questions to anyone\u2026 they would surely be puzzled and amazed.\u00a0 We asked the same questions to Ghanshyam and his response was spontaneous and affirmative. Ghanshyam, a […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darshan"],"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\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}