{"id":13898,"date":"2014-11-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/11\/28\/rk-misson-open-meditation-center-in-fiji\/"},"modified":"2014-11-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T12:00:00","slug":"rk-misson-open-meditation-center-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/11\/28\/rk-misson-open-meditation-center-in-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"RK Misson Open Meditation Center in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fijitimes.com\/story.aspx?id=287442\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NADI, FIJI, November 28, 2014 (Fiji Times): The lack of spiritual learning in schools prompted the Ramakrishna Mission to build a US$1 million universal meditation center in Nadi as part of its long-established center there. The centre was inaugurated by leaders of the Hindu, Christian, and Muslim faiths yesterday and will serve as a meditation spot for people of all faiths.<\/p>\n<p>Ramakrishna Mission secretary Swami Tadananda Maharaj said the planning started in 2010 and the building was designed by 2011. &#8220;Construction started in August 2012 and it has taken about two years and three months to complete the project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Maharaj said 95 per cent of high schools in Fiji were run by NGOs who looked after the building and maintenance of schools. &#8220;However, the NGOs are not having that impact that we want to contribute to the education,&#8221; he said.<br \/><b>&#8212; Chinese proverb<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NADI, FIJI, November 28, 2014 (Fiji Times): The lack of spiritual learning in schools prompted the Ramakrishna Mission to,&#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-13898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898","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=13898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}