{"id":601,"date":"2008-01-28T23:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/601\/a-contrast-of-colors\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T23:30:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:00:58","slug":"a-contrast-of-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/601\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contrast of Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirunelvali<\/p>\n<p>One only has to look out at the women\u2019s side of the crowd from the stage to see a rainbow of colors.\u00a0\u00a0 There are all shades, all hues, all varieties.\u00a0\u00a0 As if Amma herself threw the entire universal palette of paint into the crowd.\u00a0 Landing on the different embodied jivas, perhaps representing the color of their personal aura for the day. Pastels, neons, creams.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s side, however, is a different story.\u00a0 Business shirts, button down, with pockets and collars.\u00a0 White, off white, light colors.\u00a0 Dark slacks or dhotis.\u00a0 Not much there.\u00a0 Unispiring.<\/p>\n<p>A cultural anthropologist may have something to say about why in some animal species, one sex is bland, and the other colorful.\u00a0\u00a0 We won\u2019t judge here.\u00a0 In the presence of Amma, all are the same\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sri Pati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirunelvali One only has to look out at the women\u2019s side of the crowd from the stage to see a rainbow of colors.\u00a0\u00a0 There are all shades, all hues, all varieties.\u00a0\u00a0 As if Amma herself threw the entire universal palette of paint into the crowd.\u00a0 Landing on the different embodied jivas, perhaps representing the color [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-with-amma"],"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\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}