{"id":457,"date":"2006-08-22T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/457\/holier-than-the-river-ganges\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:32:15","slug":"holier-than-the-river-ganges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2006\/457\/","title":{"rendered":"holier than the river Ganges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight\u2019s Bhajans were:<\/p>\n<p>Sri Krishna Saranam Mama<br \/>\nNilambuja Nayane<br \/>\nGange Ginta Pavitralu<br \/>\nMere Vicha Ram<br \/>\nKalpantarangalkkum<br \/>\nOm Hari Om<br \/>\nKalindi Kalil<br \/>\nOh Mind Become Surrendered<br \/>\nOm Namah Shivaya<br \/>\nJai Jai Jai Durga Maharani<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics of the new Telugu song Gange Ginta Pavitralu struck<br \/>\nme as profoundly Beautiful:<\/p>\n<p>Mother, You are holier than the river Ganges<br \/>\nYou are more fair than pure milk<br \/>\nWith what water could your feet be washed?<br \/>\nAccept these tears with which I will wash your feet<\/p>\n<p>Your eyes are brighter than the sun and your<br \/>\nnose ornament shines more resplendently than the stars.<br \/>\nWith what lamp could I perform Arati to You?<br \/>\nAccept my eyes that gaze intently at your form<br \/>\nWith which I will perform Arati to You<\/p>\n<p>Your hands are softer than a lotus<br \/>\nYour smile is more attractive than any type of flower<br \/>\nWith what flower can I perform archana for you?<br \/>\nAccept the work done by these hands as a substitute<br \/>\nfor the flowers offered to You in Archana<\/p>\n<p>Your form is more glorious than the mountains<br \/>\nYour lap is wider than the sea<br \/>\nIn what form can I visualize You?<br \/>\nO Mother, Accept my heart that I surrender at your feet<\/p>\n<p>Vishwanath<br \/>\n22.8.2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight\u2019s Bhajans were: Sri Krishna Saranam Mama Nilambuja Nayane Gange Ginta Pavitralu Mere Vicha Ram Kalpantarangalkkum Om Hari Om Kalindi Kalil Oh Mind Become Surrendered Om Namah Shivaya Jai Jai Jai Durga Maharani The lyrics of the new Telugu song Gange Ginta Pavitralu struck me as profoundly Beautiful: Mother, You are holier than the river [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary"],"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\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}