{"id":2014,"date":"2014-07-13T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2014-07-13T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T15:31:53","slug":"soul-reflections-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Soul Reflections\u2019 Book Launch \u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 10<sup>th<\/sup> July, the Lotus Healing Seva Thursday Group met in <strong><em>Monica\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> house to celebrate the launch of <em><strong>Kamal Tolia\u2019s Book \u201cSoul Reflections\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The healing was done as normal from 10 \u2013 11.30 am. This was followed by Kamal giving a brief summary of how the book came about, what is involved in getting a book published and printed \u2026 getting the isbn number, the international bar code, the copyright status, and the legal endorsement. Next, with the help of <strong><em>Monica,<\/em><\/strong> the book\u2019s ribbon was cut and it was unwrapped. <strong><em>Monica and Kamal<\/em> <\/strong>held it up amid clapping from all. One of our senior members <em><strong>Kamlesh Giddie<\/strong> <\/em>presented a bouquet of flowers to <em><strong>Kamal<\/strong><\/em>. A cake was brought and cut amid the chanting of \u2018Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devo Maheshwara \u2026..\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hugging and congratulations followed and the signing and handing of the copies of the book. In her speech,<em><strong> Kamal<\/strong> <\/em>thanked <em><strong>Monica<\/strong> <\/em>who had envisaged the idea of the book in the first place, and all who had come for the launch. Said she \u2018I do not need this pomp and glory, this admiration, etc. But just as it is tragic if you have no one to share your sorrow with, it is equally tragic when you have no one to share your joy with \u2026. I feel so blessed to have you all with me, sharing my moment of joy with me \u2026.. Till today, I had only existed \u2026 from now on, I will live \u2026..\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lunch, which was a wonderful mixture of delicacies brought by the members was then served and enjoyed by all.<br \/>\nphoto gallery:<br \/>\n<embed width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.gstatic.com\/media\/slideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F115897923749976666946%2Falbumid%2F6035565680832092913%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCOCSk92s0uS74AE%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10th July, the Lotus Healing Seva Thursday Group met in Monica\u2019s house to celebrate the launch of Kamal Tolia\u2019s Book \u201cSoul Reflections\u201d The healing was done as normal from 10 \u2013 11.30 am. This was followed by Kamal giving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/?p=2014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kamal-tolia","category-lhsg-activities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kamaltolia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}