2000 Excerpts
This section provides excerpts from various media publications
across the U.S. If you would like to learn more about Amma in the
media, please contact us at press@ammachi.org.
Known worldwide simply as Amma or Ammachi, the spiritual leader
and humanitarian from southern India hugs for hours and hours, cradling
adults like babies, whispering comforting words and showering them
with rose petals and, as a sweet offering, Hershey's Kisses. For
25 years, Amma's spiritual hugs and charitable works, including
orphanages, women's shelters, hospices and vocational education
programs for the poor, have helped her to become what many Hindus
and non-Hindus consider a living saint. " -- Los
Angeles Times, 2000
"…there's a tremendous benevolent power that she emanates…It's
extraordinary to see what :one woman can do and inspire others around
her to do." Amma said "the basic quality one needs to
develop is love." -- The Press
Democrat, 2000
"Couldn't the woman Deepak Chopra calls a living saint just
wave? Or offer a collective blessing? "Hugging helps them to
unfold and to awaken their true nature," Ammachi explains.
Back home, says Sbalakrishnan, city editor of the country's largest
newspaper, The Times of India, 'she has a huge following, and there
are always huge queues of people wanting to see her'. " People
Magazine, 2000
"Life is like a cloudy, stormy, cold day….When you're
in her presence, it's beautiful, sunny and warm." When asked
why she (Amma) devotes her life to hugs and (chocolate) kisses,
she replied: "It's like the flowing nature of the river. Do
you ask the river, 'How do you flow?' There is no answer for it."
-- San Jose Mercury, 2000
"Mother believes in little talk, much action. Letting people
feel love within them, to experience a sense of motherhood, is the
most important thing…She's just giving, giving, giving and
never gets tired." -- Marin Independent,
2000
When
you go beyond the ego you become an offering to the world ,
What is Enlightenment,
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