{"id":1598,"date":"2002-01-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/31\/2002-01-31-lata-mangeshkar-god-i\/"},"modified":"2002-01-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-31T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-31-lata-mangeshkar-god-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/31\/2002-01-31-lata-mangeshkar-god-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Lata Mangeshkar: God  I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A HREF=&#8221;http:\/\/spirituality.indiatimes.com\/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=1749850092&#8243;GO TO SOURCE\/A\/P<br \/>\nP<\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, January 27, 2002: The following are excerpts from an interview with India&#8217;s nightingale of song, Lata Mangeshkar, on her thoughts of God. &#8220;Nothing in this world can happen without God&#8217;s mercy, that&#8217;s my firm belief. I was raised in a very religious family and follow the precepts of Hinduism. Though I love my religion, I respect all religions as much. I visit and derive tremendous peace from all places of worship. I pray every night before sleeping and I have my own puja (shrine) room at home. Besides reciting formal prayers, I keep having informal conversations with God, more of telling than asking. If somebody has hurt me, been rude to me or wronged me, I confide in God as I would to a friend or my mother. But I never wish that any harm should befall that person because I believe in karma. If somebody wrongs me, I take it in my stride thinking I must have wronged that person in my past life&#8230;.&#8221; The interview can be read in its entirety at source above.<br \/>\n\/P<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A HREF=&#8221;http:\/\/spirituality.indiatimes.com\/ArticleShow.asp?ArticleID=1749850092&#8243;GO TO SOURCE\/A\/P P MUMBAI, INDIA, January 27, 2002: The following are excerpts from an interview with India&#8217;s nightingale,&#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-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}