{"id":1447,"date":"2010-02-27T18:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2010-02-27T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:26:14","slug":"sadhus-and-monkey-mojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/27\/sadhus-and-monkey-mojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadhus and monkey mojo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The BBC News<\/em> reports &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/from_our_own_correspondent\/8539665.stm\">&#8220;For millions of Indian Hindus, the temple is a place of worship and reverence. But as Krupa Padhy discovered during a visit to one of the country&#8217;s famous temples in the state of Orissa, it can feel like stepping into a circus.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How refreshing, a religion that tricks itself out as a circus! Forget the stuffy burn in Hell routine and leave the gloom at home. Specifically, Monsieur Padhy is talking about the Rudr Narayan Kuntya temple, where &#8220;there are monkeys everywhere.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sadhus, priests, and monkeys &#8211; a prescription for a snazzy spiritual rocket-ship ride into Nirvana. And it&#8217;s worked pretty well for 5,000 years, give or take a century or so. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporarynomad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/blog_tourist_sadhus.jpg\">Buckle up and pass the ghee.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC News reports &#8211; &#8220;For millions of Indian Hindus, the temple is a place of worship and reverence. But as Krupa Padhy discovered during a visit to one of the country&#8217;s famous temples in the state of Orissa, it can feel like stepping into a circus.&#8221; How refreshing, a religion that tricks itself out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}