{"id":512,"date":"2012-04-17T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/?p=512"},"modified":"2015-11-03T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T18:02:05","slug":"augmenting-abundance-vishu-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/512","title":{"rendered":"Augmenting Abundance: Vishu Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-524 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu13.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu13-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu13-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first day of the Malayalam New Year, Vishu, was celebrated on April 14, 2012 , at the Mumbai Ashram. \u00a0In adherence to tradition, a rich spread of the \u2018Kani\u2019, consisting of a variety of fruits, vegetables, \u00a0\u00a0the \u2018Nava daanyam\u2019 (nine varieties of grains) and the \u2018konna\u2019 flowers (golden showers), which are an integral part of the Vishu celebrations, enhanced the festive spirit. \u00a0A beautiful statue of Lord Krishna adorned the stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-517 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu21-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu21-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Lalita Sahasranama Laksharchana was conducted at 10 a.m. that was well-attended by devotees from all parts of the city. The program concluded with the chanting of the Mahishasura Mardini Stotram and the Arati after which the Mahaprasad was served to all the devotees present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-518 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu3-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/04\/Vishu3-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of the Malayalam New Year, Vishu, was celebrated on April 14, 2012 , at the Mumbai Ashram. \u00a0In adherence to tradition, a rich spread of the \u2018Kani\u2019, consisting of a variety of fruits, vegetables, \u00a0\u00a0the \u2018Nava daanyam\u2019 (nine varieties of grains) and the \u2018konna\u2019 flowers (golden showers), which are an integral part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}