{"id":217,"date":"2021-06-15T09:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2021-06-15T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:26:38","slug":"sacrament-forty-days-after-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/15\/sacrament-forty-days-after-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrament: Forty days after birth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Swami Veda says in \u201cWANAM: African &amp; Indian \u2013A spiritual Dialogue\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For Forty Days After birth theoretically Mother And Child Remain confined in a room, in a chamber, given complete rest. &nbsp;This Still happens in many village societies in India, it no longer happens in the city societies, where women go out to work. &nbsp;After those forty days, the child is brought out for the first time and is introduced to the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth, the flowers, the trees, and at that time a sacrament is performed.(Page 90-91)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rangoli-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rangoli-2.jpg 918w, https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Rangoli-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty day cycle events are done in many other events too, whether for the upcoming <em>Guru Poornima<\/em>, the day dedicated to the spiritual teacher and re-commitment to one\u2019s practice or in this karma bhoomi, for events leading to a completion of a said purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time we are doing it for the <em>Akhar <\/em>Education program, which is for building the base for the young one\u2019s to be able to continue their growth during these Covid times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The ancient heart, if united with the modern mind, will prevent us from losing what we have and allows us to accept that which is good in the growth of each individual and of humanity as a whole.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Swami Rama<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Akhar-Poster-1-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" width=\"127\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Akhar-Poster-1-Copy.jpg 518w, https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Akhar-Poster-1-Copy-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Swami Veda says in \u201cWANAM: African &amp; Indian \u2013A spiritual Dialogue\u2026 For Forty Days After birth theoretically Mother And Child Remain confined in a room, in a chamber, given complete rest. &nbsp;This Still happens in many village societies in India, it no longer happens in the city societies, where women go out to work. <a href=\"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/15\/sacrament-forty-days-after-birth\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Sacrament: Forty days after birth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hihtindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}