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<\/a><\/p>\nAmma mixed the colors, and as we watched silently\u00a0 in suspense she slowly filled the pichkari with the colored water. Everyone knew what would come next\u2026slowly a roar went up as they were waiting for Amma to squirt the\u00a0 water on them. Where would she squirt first? To her left? To her right?\u00a0 Well, she took the pichkari, and full of mischief,\u00a0 pointed it slowly at people as they waited for Her to squirt. She would point the pichkari at someone, and when the person would wince, waiting for the downpour of coloured water, she would move the pichkari away. Twice she did that- and suddenly started squirting\u00a0 the water. She put colored powder on those sitting just next to the chair and squirted water on all sides.<\/p>\n
Since I was right behind her chair I thought she won\u2019t throw and color backwards. I had bent down under her chair but then just as I got up again –\u00a0 BOOM! She picked up some colored powder and threw it backwards, straight on my face! I was coated\u00a0 fully with that pink powder coming straight from Amma. I guess She literally made me more colourful!<\/p>\n
After that Amma sang Ayi He Holi and Vraj Me Aisa. I went in the front to see her face clearly. She was swaying in bliss and singing.<\/p>\n
The song goes:<\/p>\n
Kanha Ek gopi anek <\/em> Shyam ke ye leela ko dekh<\/em> Krishna is one but gopis are many. With whom will He dance the rasa dance?\u00a0 But oh look at\u00a0 his leela-\u00a0 he is there next to each gopi!<\/p>\n As Amma sang “Kanha ek Gopi anek,\u201d she was smiling at pointing to all of us in front of her “Gopi anek”… many gopis in front. .\u00a0 and Kanha Ek.. she showed “One” with her hands.. and every time she sang “Gopi anek” she pointed to all the devotees in front of her.<\/p>\n And if these hundreds in front of her were the Gopis, what did they do? While singing the response, they all pointed out to Amma and said ‘ Kanha ek’ – meaning Krishna is one.<\/p>\n It was beautiful to watch her smile, singing \u201cGopi anek\u201d and pointing to all of us and we pointing to Amma saying \u201cKanha anek.\u201d It was sooo sweet.<\/p>\n I came back drenched with water, face full of color, and in bliss. The full moon was above and my mind went to Vraj, where the blue boy with his flute played holi with the gopis under the full moon near the glistening Yamuna. And the mind came back to the stage where this dance was enacted again.<\/p>\n Yes.\u00a0 Vraj is now in Amritapuri.<\/p>\n – bala<\/p>\n ps: Of course, I forgot all about those proposals\u00a0 that I had taken to her to bless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8 Mar 2012, Amritapuri I had a great Holi.\u00a0 Even though we said that we should not celebrate Holi on our campus since we did not want students throwing color on each other in the classrooms. Nevertheless I\u00a0 got my share of holi- when the Chancellor of the university doused me with color as I […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary","category-with-amma","tag-holi"],"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\/4762","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=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nkis ke sang vo rachayenge ras?…<\/em><\/p>\n
\nVo hai Kade har Gopi ke pas.<\/em><\/p>\n