{"id":318375,"date":"2019-12-29T05:27:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318375"},"modified":"2019-12-29T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:27:53","slug":"pejavara-mutt-chief-vishwesha-teertha-swami-passes-away-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pejavara-mutt-chief-vishwesha-teertha-swami-passes-away-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Pejavara Mutt chief Vishwesha Teertha Swami passes away at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-318376 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/vishwa-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/vishwa-1.jpg 359w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/vishwa-1-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/>Pejawar Mutt chief&#8217;s Vishwesha Theertha Swami passed away on Sunday morning after battling an illness. He was 88.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The health condition of Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji was critical and there was a further decline in his condition on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was admitted to a hospital on December 20 after developing breathing difficulties and was shifted to the Pejawar Mutt in Udupi on early Sunday morning after his health condition worsened on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former union minister Uma Bharti arrived at the Mutt to pay her respects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi condolence the demise\u00a0of Vishvesha Teertha Swami in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSri Vishvesha Teertha Swamiji of the Sri Pejawara Matha, Udupi will remain in the hearts and minds of lakhs of people for whom he was always a guiding light. A powerhouse of service and spirituality, he continuously worked for a more just and compassionate society. Om Shanti,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI consider myself blessed to have got many opportunities to learn from Sri Vishvesha Teertha Swamiji. Our recent meeting, on the pious day of Guru Purnima was also a memorable one. His impeccable knowledge always stood out. My thoughts are with his countless followers,\u201d PM Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pejawar Mutt chief&#8217;s Vishwesha Theertha Swami passed away on Sunday morning after battling an illness. He was 88. The health condition of Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji was critical and there was a further decline in his condition on Saturday. He was admitted to a hospital on December 20 after developing breathing difficulties and was shifted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318377,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318375\/revisions\/318377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}