{"id":843,"date":"2008-09-02T03:37:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/843\/ecstasy\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:09:40","slug":"ecstasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/843\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch of Ecstasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">There is a little Indian boy here at  the moment who has the honor of launching the bhajans as he gets up  on the peetham with Amma , takes the microphone and starts innocently  and without any self consciousness chanting his mixture of mantras,  bhajans and complete nonsense. It is quite interesting to watch him  and see what he comes up with. Amma, Swamiji and everyone were really  entertained and amused by him. Quite a little character I have to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">The songs tonight were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Narayana Hari<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Anathanakkarute<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Devi Bhagavati Shantipurne<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">He Kripamayi Ambe<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Anbin Vativam Amma<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Om Namah Shivaya<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Devi Sharanam<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">The bhajans kicked off with three old  classics that set the mood for the evening. Amma delved into some\u00a0  unreachable depths and especially towards the end while she was singing  Devi Sharanam something magical was in the air. Some evening are just  like that, a deep harmony and presence, with a touch of ecstasy are  in the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Calibri\">Vishwanath<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a little Indian boy here at the moment who has the honor of launching the bhajans as he gets up on the peetham with Amma , takes the microphone and starts innocently and without any self consciousness chanting his mixture of mantras, bhajans and complete nonsense. It is quite interesting to watch him [&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-843","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\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}