{"id":834,"date":"2008-08-25T04:09:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/834\/chocolate\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T04:09:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:39:49","slug":"chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/834\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolates for Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a series of IAM meditation classes here in Amritapuri &#8211; even for the children. It was the first time I was taking a class for children in Amritapuri. There were children from all over. Some serious and some&#8230;. &#8211; You Know!<\/p>\n<p>It was so beautiful to watch all the children and how Amma was so deep rooted in them. But thought that was the case &#8211; before the actual meditation we all sat with eyes closed and imagined that Amma was there right in front of us and She held a chocolate in Her hand. So obviously we all opened our mouths and the chocolate was so smooth and sweet!<\/p>\n<p>And then we opened our eyes and everybody opened their mouths and lo and behold &#8211; there was chocolate in my mouth! It was so good! I had snuck some chocolate in my mouth when all the kids had their eyes closed! I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>And I did give chocolate to all of Amma&#8217;s little darling children at the end of the class. Those who meditate get chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nijamrita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a series of IAM meditation classes here in Amritapuri &#8211; even for the children. It was the first time I was taking a class for children in Amritapuri. There were children from all over. Some serious and some&#8230;. &#8211; You Know! It was so beautiful to watch all the children and how [&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":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashram-diary","category-meditation"],"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\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}