{"id":8662,"date":"2017-10-14T22:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2017-10-14T22:21:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T16:51:31","slug":"we-are-not-devotees-but-are-ammas-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2017\/8662\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not devotees but are Amma\u2019s children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Age is never a barrier when you have strong faith and belief. This couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ramu, hailing from Kozhikode, Kerala, are in their mid-80\u2019s. They recollected that the first time they met Amma was way back in 1986, when Amma came for bhajans at Azhakodi Devi Temple in Kozhikode.
\nThey have been coming here for all of Amma\u2019s Birthday celebrations ever since. They say that, these 21 years, meeting Amma frequently, whenever she is in the ashram, and also every year on the occasion of Amritavarsham, had brought in more peace and calmness in their life.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Sarojini Ramu talks about one of her experiences when she came for Amritavarsham50. An auto ran over her leg and she was taken to a nearby hospital but she insisted she shouldn\u2019t be admitted. She says- \u201cI said to the doctors that I came for Amma\u2019s birthday so I want to go for it no matter what\u201d. When she reached one of her relatives\u2019 house in Kochi to stay for that night, they also warned her that her swollen leg will only get worse by the next morning but she replied- \u201cAmma will take care of me as she has always done in the past\u201d. The very next day when she woke up to get ready for the event, her entire leg was healed. A proof of a child\u2019s unwavering faith in her mother?<\/p>\n

This year when she came for Amritavarsham64, she got a sprain in her leg. Her husband suggested visiting a doctor and getting it fixed. He felt that, otherwise, she will not be able to walk for the next few days. Again, she refused saying \u201cWhy go to a normal doctor when you have the very best doctor sitting on the stage?\u201d She applied some of Amma\u2019s balm and the very next day the leg was healed. Of course, she adds that such things may have happened due to her intense desire not to miss Amma\u2019s birthday; and that this does not mean that doctors and medicines are not needed!<\/p>\n

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

Age is never a barrier when you have strong faith and belief. This couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ramu, hailing from Kozhikode, Kerala, are in their mid-80\u2019s. They recollected that the first time they met Amma was way back in 1986, when Amma came for bhajans at Azhakodi Devi Temple in Kozhikode. They have been coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8663,"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-8662","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\/17Sarojini.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","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=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}