{"id":231,"date":"2008-06-09T23:44:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T07:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-06-09T23:44:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T07:44:58","slug":"barack-obamas-lucky-charm-is-it-god-hanuman-in-his-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/barack-obamas-lucky-charm-is-it-god-hanuman-in-his-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama&#8217;s lucky charm: Carries a miniature god Hanuman in his pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine&#8217;s photo blog has a very interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/whitehouse\/photos\/0,27424,1811278,00.html\">picture<\/a> where Barack Obama is displaying the things he carries in his pocket to bring him luck. One of them is a tiny metal statue of the Hindu god <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanuman\">Hanuman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What caught my eye that\u00a0tiny icon (or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murti\"><em>Murti<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0did not look like\u00a0one of\u00a0god Hanuman as it has 4 hands, one holding a chakra, the other a <em>trishul<\/em> or a <em>gada<\/em>, the other two hands have a lotus and a conch, presumably. These 4 things are associated with Lord <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vishnu\">Vishnu<\/a> (Lord Krishna is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu). However, the tiny statue has a tail (it also looks like that while showing this to the reporters, the face of the statue was touching the palm).\u00a0Sending\u00a0this image to a professor at Delhi University for further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the slightly annotated version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/whitehouse\/photos\/0,27424,1811278,00.html\">original picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chakra.jpg\" title=\"chakra.jpg\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chakra.jpg\" alt=\"chakra.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chakra.jpg\" alt=\"chakra.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chakra.jpg\" title=\"chakra.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/chakra.jpg\" alt=\"chakra.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine&#8217;s photo blog has a very interesting picture where Barack Obama is displaying the things he carries in his pocket to bring him luck. One of them is a tiny metal statue of the Hindu god Hanuman. What caught my eye that\u00a0tiny icon (or Murti)\u00a0did not look like\u00a0one of\u00a0god Hanuman as it has 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,93,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}