{"id":928,"date":"2015-10-21T01:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/?p=928"},"modified":"2016-01-27T01:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:50:04","slug":"festival-abundance-onam-celebrations-ma-math-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/928","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Abundance: Onam Celebrations @ MAM, Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-929 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150828_015816_1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150828_015816_1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>\nOnam is regarded as the harvest festival of Kerala, a festival that heralds prosperity and abundance to the land. It is a tribute to the legendary king Mahabali, during whose reign, it is said, Kerala witnessed a golden era, based on equality and brotherhood, free from crime and poverty, sickness and misery. It is believed that the king visits the land once every year to inquire into the well-being of his subjects.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/928\/img_20150830_131426_1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-932\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-932\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150830_131426_1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150830_131426_1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe festival was duly celebrated this year on Sunday, 30th August at M.A.Math, Mumbai, with enthusiastic participation by devotees from all parts of the city. The festivities were marked by a distinct traditional touch, from the beautifully colored pookalam(Rangoli designs using flower petals), the \u2018Kai kotti kali\u2019, (a celebrative dance form) by the women devotees, to the \u2018Ona sadhya\u2019, the lunch comprising various delicacies, served on plantain leaves.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/928\/img_20150830_140433_1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/files\/2015\/10\/IMG_20150830_140433_1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150830_140433_1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the chanting of the Ashtotthram and the Bhagvad Gita(Chapter 15), devotees got together to participate in the \u2018Ona sadhya\u2019. An atmosphere of joy and merriment was blended with devotion and peace, as a Tamil film based on the life of the great saint Swami Raghavendra was screened. The celebrations concluded with a bhajan session and the Maha Arati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onam is regarded as the harvest festival of Kerala, a festival that heralds prosperity and abundance to the land. It is a tribute to the legendary king Mahabali, during whose reign, it is said, Kerala witnessed a golden era, based on equality and brotherhood, free from crime and poverty, sickness and misery. It is believed [&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-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amma.org.in\/mumbai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}