{"id":8632,"date":"2017-10-13T00:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2017-10-13T00:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T19:07:02","slug":"engineering-handicrafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2017\/8632\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering handicrafts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cI still remember the first time I saw Her, that inexplicable calmness on Amma\u2019s face.\u201d \u2013Charlie Mathi<\/p>\n

Charlie Mathi, a diploma holder in mechanical engineering, is a native of Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has been putting up a handicraft stall for the past 7 years on the occasion of Amritavarsham. Being a diploma holder, why has he resorted to this handicraft selling? He says \u201cI am a diploma holder, my villagers have always been discouraging me from making handicrafts. They mock me for not working in a field in accordance with my studies and such reactions from people make my parents feel embarrassed as well.<\/p>\n

However, my parents stood by my side (as they always do, in other issues too) and said that I was doing something that other villagers couldn’t do, so they were jealous of me. But even then I couldn’t continue to stay there and do this business. I left my village and came to Kayamkulam to meet Rajvalsan a friend of mine. He suggested to meet Amma.<\/p>\n

I came for Amma\u2019s darshan and opened up to to her about my problems in my hometown and she said that if I kept running away from my problems fearing them, I would never be able to overcome them. I then made a decision to stick to my passion and live with my parents in my hometown. \u201dHe returned to Tirunelveli and comes to Kayamkulam only during the birthday festive season.
\nHe makes idols of Lord Krishna, Ganapathy and Saraswathy in coconut shells and sells them for a price of Rs.60 each. \u201cMy parents are happy and I have now found a way to live my life without giving up my passion\u201d says Charlie. Needless to say, he is happy.<\/p>\n

– Anirudh.R, Tony Ajith and Poonthamil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI still remember the first time I saw Her, that inexplicable calmness on Amma\u2019s face.\u201d \u2013Charlie Mathi Charlie Mathi, a diploma holder in mechanical engineering, is a native of Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu. He has been putting up a handicraft stall for the past 7 years on the occasion of Amritavarsham. Being a diploma holder, why has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8633,"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":[5],"tags":[674],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-darshan","tag-amritavarsham64"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2017\/10\/17handicrafts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8636,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions\/8636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}