{"id":673,"date":"2008-03-23T23:42:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/673\/the-return\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:12:58","slug":"the-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/673\/","title":{"rendered":"the return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a022 march, bharata yatra 2008, kolkata to amritapuri<br \/>\nas we returned to amritapuri, many seats in the buses remained vacant. the 4 trucks, 8 buses, 3 cars, and the camper without amma&#8230;\u00a0 all go in line. seeing the white buses and people in white dress, everybody looks with wonder; &#8216;who is this?&#8217;<br \/>\nour routine is the same. we stop for lunch, stop for chai and dinner. temporary light is set up, we serve food, have our prayers.. and leave. no satsangs; but the words of amma from the last satsang echos in our mind.<\/p>\n<p>today&#8217;s travel is about 840 kilometers. from kolkata we are driving to vishaka pattanam. because of holi, the roads were mostly empty. we saw a lot of people with colours painted all over who had taken part in the celebration. holi is the beautiful festival of colours.<\/p>\n<p>another 800 odd kilometer to chennai and then another 800+ to amritapuri. altogether about 2500 k.m.<br \/>\nits a 4-line free road ahead. a beautiful road, and hoping for a beautiful safe ride.<\/p>\n<p>~ dhyanamrita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a022 march, bharata yatra 2008, kolkata to amritapuri as we returned to amritapuri, many seats in the buses remained vacant. the 4 trucks, 8 buses, 3 cars, and the camper without amma&#8230;\u00a0 all go in line. seeing the white buses and people in white dress, everybody looks with wonder; &#8216;who is this?&#8217; our routine is [&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-673","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\/673","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=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}