{"id":6597,"date":"2007-08-14T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/6597\/"},"modified":"2014-12-29T23:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T17:56:54","slug":"innocent-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/6597\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend of long darshans Amma came today for bhajans again. It was a really nice set with a few very new ones interspersed with a couple of classic ones.<\/p>\n<p>There was one little Indian boy sitting next to me during bhajans who was staring at me for some time and then commenced make a very innocent observation. Suddenly he turned to me and said: \u201cYou know, you are very red.\u201d, which is true because today I was out in the sun for a fairly long time and having fair skin I cannot stand strong sunlight. I said to him: \u201cYes, too much sun.\u201d Next the boy said something that really made me smile. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing that I\u2019m already brown.\u201d Isn\u2019t that great? He said it with such innocence and confidence that I really couldn\u2019t but wonder at his lack of self consciousness. I know this incident doesn\u2019t relate to Amma directly, but it does touch on subject the subject of innocence that she likes to touch upon often and I just wanted to share it because it made me smile.<\/p>\n<p>The songs tonight were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He Gananayaka Siddhivinayaka<\/li>\n<li>Krishna Govinda Gopala Ram<\/li>\n<li>Varalunna Hridayattil<\/li>\n<li>Niilanjanamizhi<\/li>\n<li>Meri Hridaya Sree Rama Base (Hindi)<\/li>\n<li>Aldbhuta Charitre<\/li>\n<li>Chintakalkantyam<\/li>\n<li>Om Namah Shivaya<\/li>\n<li>Ni Intri Verarumillai (Tamil)<\/li>\n<li>Jai Janani Jai Ho Teri (Hindi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vishwanath<br \/>13 August 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend of long darshans Amma came today for bhajans again. It was a really nice set with a few very new ones interspersed with a couple of classic ones. There was one little Indian boy sitting next to me during bhajans who was staring at me for some time and then commenced make [&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-6597","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\/6597","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=6597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}