{"id":14365,"date":"2015-07-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/07\/14\/remembering-the-great-sage-of-kanchi\/"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:00:00","slug":"remembering-the-great-sage-of-kanchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/07\/14\/remembering-the-great-sage-of-kanchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Great Sage of Kanchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/murali-balaji\/remembering-the-kanchi-pe_b_7786118.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2015 (huffingtonpost.com): One of the great joys of visiting India as an adult is how such visits make me appreciate my trips to the country when I was much younger. <br \/>I spent the summer of 1993 in India with my family, missing my friends in the Philadelphia area and feeling tortured by the constant bites of mosquitoes in monsoon-racked Mumbai and heat-soaked Trichy in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Despite my general discomfort with being in India, I enjoyed time with relatives my parents left behind decades earlier (and before I was born) and hearing from elders the oral histories of my family and the Tamil Smarta Hindu tradition in which we were raised. It helped me appreciate &#8211; at least a little bit &#8211; what sacrifices my folks, especially my father, made in leaving India.<\/p>\n<p>My father&#8217;s family, particularly my paternal grandfather, were devotees of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, one of the mutts that claims lineage from the great Hindu saint and reformer Adi Shankara. I accompanied my parents and several of my dad&#8217;s relatives to Kanchipuram, about two hours drive from Chennai, Tamil Nadu&#8217;s biggest city. It was there, amidst the throngs of people trying to catch a glimpse of the beloved sage of Kanchi, Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, affectionately known as the Kanchi Periyava, we came in close proximity to a realized soul. To this day, my experience being in the presence of the Kanchi Maha Periyava is one of the few times I can remember feeling like I was being blessed by a divine soul.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2015 (huffingtonpost.com): One of the great joys of visiting India as an adult is how,&#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-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","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=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}