{"id":4235,"date":"2017-07-26T06:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2017-07-26T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T17:18:51","slug":"vivekananda-rock-on-wellesley-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"Vivekananda Rock on Wellesley Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/amanda.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\nName = Amanda Gustafson<\/p>\n<p>Email = amanda.gustafson@me.com<\/p>\n<p>Message =<br \/>\nMy friend, Jimmy Vaughn, gave me a Sam stone and I took it with me to<br \/>\nmy favorite place on earth: Vivekananda Rock on Wellesley Island. The<br \/>\npicture attached is a tree, which was the site of a powerful<br \/>\nmeditation for Swami Vivekananda.&#8221;It said that on his last day August<br \/>\n7, 1895 at the Thousand Islands the Swami went into the back woods to<br \/>\nmeditate and froze solid in meditation and remained oblivious to<br \/>\ntorrential rain and is said to have achieved nirvikalpa Samadhi. (Page<br \/>\n104)<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He wrote from there to a friend:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am free, my bonds are cut, what do I care whether this body goes<br \/>\nor does not go? I have a truth to teach\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI am a child of God. And He<br \/>\nthat gave me truth will send me fellow workers from the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nbravest and best.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Page 105-106<br \/>\nSource Vivekananda a Biography (1953)<br \/>\nThank you for letting me be a part of your son&#8217;s and your family&#8217;s<br \/>\njourney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name = Amanda Gustafson Email = amanda.gustafson@me.com Message = My friend, Jimmy Vaughn, gave me a Sam stone and I took it with me to my favorite place on earth: Vivekananda Rock on Wellesley Island. The picture attached is a tree, which was the site of a powerful meditation for Swami Vivekananda.&#8221;It said that on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":44.2903671,"longitude":-76.0264206,"description":"Wellesley Island, NY 13640, USA"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}