{"id":8804,"date":"2019-02-28T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:26:33","slug":"sitting-by-my-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2019\/8804\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting by my Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amritapuri.org\/photos\/19-mysuru\/19ap2mys-12.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What could be more beautiful than<br>\nsitting with my guru in the cowshed,<br>\nsmelling the cow dung from the floor,<br>\nsitting close and<br>\nlistening to the words of my master<br>\nand eat out of her own hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What could be more beautiful than<br>\nsitting at the edge of the jungle by night,<br>\nwith full moon,<br>\nsinging bhajans with the master,<br>\ndrinking chai, eating, laughing and<br>\njust marveling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amritapuri.org\/photos\/19-mysuru\/19ap2mys-13.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To sit under the open sky,<br>\nwith a full moon next to my guru<br>\nis for me absolute beauty,<br>\npure oneness, true unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am born on a full moon and<br>\nI feel one with my guru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These moments will be precious stones,<br>\nnobody can take from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so grateful that my guru<br>\ngives me such nice moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guru , the full moon and me<br>\nThe I dissolves<br>\nMy guru and the full moon <br>\nThe full moon dissolves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guru <br> The &#8216;my&#8217; dissolves <br> Guru<br> The one who brings us all <br>from darkness to eternal light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>by Nirmala (Switzerland)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nirmala wanted to join the North India Tour. She was able to do it this year, after many years.  She read these few lines during a recent lunch stop with Amma,<\/em> <em>expressing her gratitude to her guru&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could be more beautiful than sitting with my guru in the cowshed, smelling the cow dung from the floor, sitting close and listening to the words of my master and eat out of her own hands. What could be more beautiful than sitting at the edge of the jungle by night, with full moon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"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\/8804","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}