{"id":6686,"date":"2007-05-07T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/6686\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T06:06:00","slug":"it-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2007\/6686\/","title":{"rendered":"It has begun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It has begun. That is, over two thousand children have arrived in Amritapuri for a personality development camp. Every corner of the ashram is bustling with life and enthusiasm, like it should be. That\u2019s what an ashram is about. It is refreshing to have so many children around. We can learn a lot from them as Amma says. One of the most important things in spiritual life is innocence, humility and a beginner\u2019s attitude. Without these qualities one\u2019s spiritual life will ultimately atrophy or turn into a farce and mockery. It is always a good took take a look at one\u2019s own life and see if these qualities are being nurtured and protected. Amma keeps repeating this often to us, but how seriously do we take it? Maybe we think it\u2019s an old clich\u00e9 and not really so essential. But why do all the great masters keep repeating this? <\/span><\/p>\n

Today I watched the children approach Amma with their questions and felt how much beauty there was in their interaction. I pray and hope to be able to cultivate such childlike qualities or maybe I should say bring them out, since all of us just little children at heart waiting to be loved and recognized. We just look in the wrong places. <\/span><\/p>\n

The children are very well behaved and clearly of a spiritual samskara. I\u2019m looking forward to this week to learn from them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amma came straight for bhajans. She was in a sweet bhava and the songs were really touching: <\/span><\/p>\n

Nandakumara Vanditarupa<\/span><\/p>\n

Chentalir Padangal<\/span><\/p>\n

Ennile Enne<\/span><\/p>\n

Mere Hridaya Sree Rama Base<\/span><\/p>\n

Nin Ormakal Matram<\/span><\/p>\n

Enaikakka Unaiyantri<\/span><\/p>\n

Om Namah Shivaya<\/span><\/p>\n

Vanamali Kanna<\/span><\/p>\n

Jai Jai Janani Jai Ho Teri<\/span><\/p>\n

Vishwanath<\/span><\/p>\n

7 May 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has begun. That is, over two thousand children have arrived in Amritapuri for a personality development camp. Every corner of the ashram is bustling with life and enthusiasm, like it should be. That\u2019s what an ashram is about. It is refreshing to have so many children around. We can learn a lot from them […]<\/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-6686","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\/6686","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=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}