{"id":8380,"date":"2009-10-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/22\/hindus-celebrate-skanda-shasti-with-stories-to-tell-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-celebrate-skanda-shasti-with-stories-to-tell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/22\/hindus-celebrate-skanda-shasti-with-stories-to-tell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Celebrate Skanda Shasti, With Stories to Tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: HPI<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Today Hindus around the world are celebrating Skanda Shasti, a festival of the God that is also known as Murugan and Kartikkeya. The God of yoga and sannyas, His sacred weapon is a &#8220;vel,&#8221; lance, symbolizing piercing and deep cognition. From the African island of Mauritius this interesting report was sent to HPI.]<\/p>\n<p>MAURITIUS, October 22, 2009: The small island of Mauritius witnessed a miracle, during this spiritually strong period of Skanda Shasti, on the Corps de Garde mountain in the town of Quatre Bornes near the beautiful temple dedicated to Sri Siva Subramanya.<\/p>\n<p>A regular devotee, ready to participate in the daily Skanda Shasti Homa, parked his car on a very steep road which leads to the temple. He climbed the remaining stars on foot with thoughts all of Lord Muruga. But the car started rolling down the hill, on a dangerous route that would be catastrophic to people and other cars. Suddenly, it changed course, as evidenced by the tire tracks, and stopped&#8230; against a huge steel Shakti Vel sealed in concret. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: HPI [HPI note: Today Hindus around the world are celebrating Skanda Shasti, a festival of the God that is,&#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-8380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380","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=8380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}