{"id":6681,"date":"2007-05-12T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/6681\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:04:32","slug":"getting-better-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/6681\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting better every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 1ex\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">Today was the fifth day of the children\u2019s  personality development camp. The day was full of excitement as it started  with Amma answering the children\u2019s questions, then giving darshan  to everybody, and after that took all the kids swimming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">After darshan Amma sang Mata Rani Ke,  during which the children got up danced all through the song. The whole  hall was just one big mass of dancing children. Quite incredible really.  The whole ashram is just bursting with fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">I was already up on stage ready for  bhajans when I was told that Amma is calling the brahmacharis to join  her at the pool. I couldn\u2019t believe that after being at the pool with  all those kids for so many hours she would still call us to swim with  her also, but like said, we are children to her also.  I ran up to get  my swimming trunks and ran to the pool and there she was surrounded  by the boys joking with them and pushing them into the pool one by one.  I like that part so I ripped off my dhoti and shirt ASAP, went to Amma,  touched her feet and next thing I know, she shoved me into the pool.  It\u2019s not only the children having fun. This camp just keeps getting  better every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">I\u2019m sure that by the end of the camp  the kids will go back home with the clear impression that spiritual  life is not something dry and austere but really fun and full of excitement.  This must be an unforgettable experience for them. It makes me very  happy to be present to see their joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">Amma did not come for bhajans tonight  because of the swimming. Swami Amritatmanandaji sang an energetic set  with the children clapping time and applauding wildly. The kids are  so receptive towards everything here. It\u2019s really inspiring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">Vishwanath<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:100%\">11 May 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the fifth day of the children\u2019s personality development camp. The day was full of excitement as it started with Amma answering the children\u2019s questions, then giving darshan to everybody, and after that took all the kids swimming. After darshan Amma sang Mata Rani Ke, during which the children got up danced all through [&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-6681","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\/6681","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=6681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}