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Amma



Mata Amritanandamayi, or Amma (Mother), is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru, and humanitarian. She is revered as a hugging saint by her followers and strongly believes in the transformative power of love. Amma spreads her love and compassion through prayer, embrace, and service.

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Amma Singing Bhajan - Lalita Lalita Sri Lalita

Amma singing after the evening meditation on the seashore.

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For My Children

For My Children is a compact volume of Amma’s selected teachings and answers to commonly asked questions. Mother’s words have the simplicity of a village girl, and at the same time, the profound and immediate quality of someone speaking directly from divine experience.

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May the Sorrows of Old Age Melt in the Light of Youth’s Love

Our debt to our parents is unrepayable. We must consider any opportunity we get to serve and care for them as God’s grace.

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Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) (English Subtitles)

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From Amma's Heart

For the past 30 years, Amma has dedicated her life to the uplift of suffering humanity through the simplest of gestures, an embrace. In this intimate manner, Amma has blessed and consoled more than 30 million people throughout the world.

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Amma’s Multifaceted Empire, Built on Hugs

Amma best known for literally embracing the masses; has hugged millions of people around the world, a feat that has earned her the nickname “the hugging saint.”

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Full Video - Mata Amritanandamayi (Doordarshan Interview)

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Mother of Sweet Bliss

Amma's biography for young readers. This is the true story of Sudhamani, a girl who grew up in a fishing village by the sea in Southern India. From birth she was special. She spent hours singing songs to Krishna. She showered compassion on everyone she met and helped them however she could.

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Through Living a Good Life, We Can Rewrite Our Destiny - Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

The new decade was ushered in at Amritapuri with a beautiful tableau of dances and musical performances representing the cultural traditions of Amma’s children of all ages from across India and many parts of the world, to the delight of the thousands assembled to celebrate and reflect with Amma.

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Sri Mata Amritanandamayi: A Biography

In this book Mata Amritanandamayi vividly portrays the Mother’s courage and intense devotion to God in the face of attacks by Her unsympathetic relatives and hostile detractors who sought to destroy Her, as they feared the changes brought about by Her universal love.

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