{"id":1273,"date":"2001-10-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/10\/08\/2001-10-08-antony-recalls-how-he-got-spiritual-solace\/"},"modified":"2001-10-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-08T12:00:00","slug":"2001-10-08-antony-recalls-how-he-got-spiritual-solace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/10\/08\/2001-10-08-antony-recalls-how-he-got-spiritual-solace\/","title":{"rendered":"Antony Recalls How He Got Spiritual Solace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesofindia.com\/articleshow.asp?art_id=561109648\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MRITAPURI, INDIA, October 8, 2001: Has the atheist Chief Minister Antony become a devotee of the woman-saint Mata Amritananda Mayi? Antony, a member of the Congress party, would not call himself a devotee but he admitted that he had found solace in the presence of the Mata, who is lovingly called Amma. &#8220;I am no believer nor do I practice a religion, but I do not harbor ill will towards any faith or creed,&#8221; he said at the birthday celebrations of the Mata at Parayakadavu in Kollam district. &#8220;I met her for the first time in a Kochi-Delhi flight in1994. I noticed a radiance and love in her visage. Then in 1996, when I was chief minister, I inaugurated the Amrita project for free houses to the poor and widowed women. Ever since that I insist on meeting her whenever possible.&#8221; Anthony&#8217;s philosophic origins lay with Nehru socialism, but many of Kerala&#8217;s communists have similarly shifted back toward their Hindu roots.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MRITAPURI, INDIA, October 8, 2001: Has the atheist Chief Minister Antony become a devotee of the woman-saint,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}