17 Jan 2007, Amritapuri.
\nThe other night, just after Bhajans, but before Arati, all the children who were sitting behind Amma got up and ran off the stage.\u00a0 All of them, that is, except my 6 year old daughter Gaiamrita.\u00a0 She had positioned herself sitting directly behind Amma and was sitting cross-legged, with spine straight.\u00a0 She stayed through Arati singing along.\u00a0 My 2-1\/2\u00a0 year old son, Ravi , who had been sitting out of view on the stage, walked out to join his sister at the end while they were chanting \u2018Lokah Samastah Sukinau Bhavantu\u2019.\u00a0 When the chanting had finished, my daughter quickly prostrated, then moved aside to make way for Amma who would be getting up to leave the stage.\u00a0 Ravi , watching his sister prostrate, followed suit, but did not run off like his sister.\u00a0 As Amma stood up to leave, she turned around, and looked straight down to find Ravi right at her feet, unawares that Amma had gotten up.\u00a0\u00a0 There he stayed, \u2013 face down, in full prostration. Amma patiently stood there, smiling, until he finally got up and moved aside.\u00a0\u00a0 As Amma left the stage, she briefly commented about the humility and \u2018good manners\u2019 she had just witnessed.<\/p>\n
–Abhay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
17 Jan 2007, Amritapuri. The other night, just after Bhajans, but before Arati, all the children who were sitting behind Amma got up and ran off the stage.\u00a0 All of them, that is, except my 6 year old daughter Gaiamrita.\u00a0 She had positioned herself sitting directly behind Amma and was sitting cross-legged, with spine straight.\u00a0 […]<\/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-575","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\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}