{"id":476,"date":"2006-09-04T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/476\/life-is-a-celebration\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:32:11","slug":"life-is-a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2006\/476\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is a celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s Onam. all over Kerala people are joyously celebrating Onam.<br \/>\nchildren&#8230; they spend their days plucking flowers and running around after dragon flies, arranging the courtyard with flowers&#8230;<br \/>\nwith new dresses they swing on the trees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>here also in the ashram we have one swing next to amma&#8217;s room. almost all the swamis have used it at least once. The &#8216;grown ups&#8217; watch the &#8216;children&#8217; with wonder.<\/p>\n<p>i remember what amma always says: &#8220;we have to be childlike, we should cultivate that innocence&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>with amma every one becomes a child.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2010\/08\/swing.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\/swing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;grown ups&#8217; watch the child with wonder<\/p>\n<p>Dhyanamrita<br \/>\n4 Sep 06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s Onam. all over Kerala people are joyously celebrating Onam. children&#8230; they spend their days plucking flowers and running around after dragon flies, arranging the courtyard with flowers&#8230; with new dresses they swing on the trees&#8230; here also in the ashram we have one swing next to amma&#8217;s room. almost all the swamis have used [&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-476","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\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}