{"id":461,"date":"2006-08-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/461\/sunset-at-amritapuri\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:32:15","slug":"sunset-at-amritapuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2006\/461\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset at Amritapuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2010\/08\/sunset_amritapuri.0.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2010\/08\/sunset_amritapuri.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEveryone knows that just like snowflakes, no two sunsets are alike. Their inherent beauty and unpredictability are Mother Nature&#8217;s gift to humanity &#8211; stirring the soul and spirit. But there is something about the sunsets in Amritapuri that lift the soul just a bit higher.<\/p>\n<p>Every evening, between 5:30 and 6pm, I head up to the roof of the &#8216;S&#8217; flats (the Brahmachari building just behind the stage in the main hall) to do my IAM meditation. Afterwards, I rest in sivasana (corpse pose). Tonight, as I finished, I stood up to find a most spectacular sunset filling the sky with blue, orange, and red pastels. In the main hall below, Amma had just come for bhajans and started singing&#8230;..a new song whose uplifting melody reaches deep into my being &#8211; as if Amma is taking hold of my heart and bringing it to the state where I can imagine myself feeling what Amma feels when She spontaneously lifts her arms in ecstasy. I wanted it to last forever, but here in India, closer to the equator, the sunsets are shorter. No worries &#8211; there is always tomorrow&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Sri Pati &#8211; USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that just like snowflakes, no two sunsets are alike. Their inherent beauty and unpredictability are Mother Nature&#8217;s gift to humanity &#8211; stirring the soul and spirit. But there is something about the sunsets in Amritapuri that lift the soul just a bit higher. Every evening, between 5:30 and 6pm, I head up to [&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-461","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\/461","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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}