{"id":615,"date":"2012-07-22T23:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-07-22T23:46:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T18:16:21","slug":"parents-day-with-a-difference-sanskrti-puja-at-badlapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/615","title":{"rendered":"Parents Day with a Difference: Sanskrti Puja at Badlapur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, July 15, 2012, a unique event was organized and conducted at the Amrita Kripa Sagar Cancer Hospice, Badlapur.\u00a0 True to its name, the Sanskrti Puja is aimed at instilling in young children a respectful and reverential attitude towards their parents, the two most influential persons in their lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" title=\"IMG_9884\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_9884.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Puja commenced at 10.30 a.m. with the traditional lighting of the lamp by Br.Avyayamrita Chaitanya. As is unique to Indian culture and tradition, the children offered their salutations to their mothers and fathers, who are revered as God Himself. To the accompaniment of chanting of the sacred mantras, \u201cAum Sri Matre Namaha\u201d and \u201cAum Pitrubhyo Namaha\u201d 18 times, they worshipped the parents\u2019 feet and washed them.\u00a0 The children then garlanded them lovingly. The doting parents responded with an affectionate peck on their kids\u2019 cheeks and by putting sweets into their mouths. The strong bonding was evident from their gleaming faces! Indeed a Parents\u2019 Day with a difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"IMG_9940\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_9940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the Puja, as a small but significant act of charity, school notebooks were distributed amongst the children of the local poor. The program came to a close at about 1.00 p.m.with the Maha Arati after which everyone assembled were treated to a sumptuous lunch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-620\" title=\"IMG_9970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2012\/07\/IMG_9970.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, July 15, 2012, a unique event was organized and conducted at the Amrita Kripa Sagar Cancer Hospice, Badlapur.\u00a0 True to its name, the Sanskrti Puja is aimed at instilling in young children a respectful and reverential attitude towards their parents, the two most influential persons in their lives. The Puja commenced at 10.30 [&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-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}