{"id":8989,"date":"2010-04-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/19\/a-penance-for-world-peace\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T12:00:00","slug":"a-penance-for-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/04\/19\/a-penance-for-world-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Penance for World Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/news\/hanging-upside-down-he-prays-for-world-peace-at-maha-kumbh-news-national-keduagdcbcj.html\">sify.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 3, 2010: As millions of religious-minded are visiting the ongoing &#8216;Maha Kumbh Mela&#8217; or, the biggest religious bathing fair in Haridwar city of Uttarakhand, many holy men have drawn the devotee&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>One of such holy men is Swami Vijayananda. Everyday he hangs himself upside-down for eight hours on bonfire, his way of performing penance for world peace. He says he will continue meditating in this manner for 21 days. &#8220;This (tapas position) is a throne on which I am meditating remembering the Lord which might help to create world peace and also protect human emotions,&#8221; Vijayananda Maharaj said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kumbh Mela began on January 14 and will continue untill April 28 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: sify.com HARIDWAR, INDIA, April 3, 2010: As millions of religious-minded are visiting the ongoing &#8216;Maha Kumbh Mela&#8217; or, the,&#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-8989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989","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=8989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}