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By Mata Amritanandamayi; Lucia, Amanda J.; Mata Amritanandamayi

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Globally referred to as Amma, which means "Mother," Mata Amritanandamayi has constructed a huge transnational humanitarian association dependent in hugs. She is normal to hundreds of thousands because the “hugging saint,” a moniker that derives from her difficult darshan courses in which approximately each day 10000 individuals are embraced via the guru one after the other, occasions that frequently final ten to 20 hours with none relaxation for her. even though she was once born in 1953 as a low-caste lady in a South Indian fishing village, this present day thousands revere her as guru and goddess, a residing embodiment of the divine on earth.

Reflections of Amma specializes in groups of Amma’s devotees within the usa, exhibiting how they activity to reflect their guru’s behaviors and remodel themselves to emulate the ethos of the stream. This learn argues that “inheritors” and “adopters” of Hindu traditions otherwise interpret Hindu goddesses, Amma, and her relation to feminism and women’s empowerment as a result of their inherited spiritual, cultural, and political inclinations. during this insightful ethnographic research, Amanda J. Lucia discovers how the politics of yank multiculturalism reifies those cultural changes in “de facto congregations,” even though Amma’s embody makes an attempt to erase communal limitations in desire of world unity.

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If tomorrow Bin Laden were to come and get a darshan from Amma, Amma would hug him. ” For her, everybody is her children [sic]. So in one sense, she embodies the compassion, compassionate aspect of everything. And so she cannot say that this person is wrong and this person is right. She will not say that. Because as I said, to her, everyone is an expression of the Divine. But that doesn’t mean that she says what they do is correct. And personally, I have seen Amma giving advice to people saying that this is not the correct path to follow, you should change.

Through participant observation, scholars create a window through which to deconstruct religious discourses and practices and their claims to transcendent authority. Ethnographers reveal themselves and their fellow actors as human agents creating religious meaning with human means and human ends. Ethnography enables scholars to read society as a text37 and thereby to enfold themselves in practical participatory situations through which they may probe deeper by interacting with their sources in search of subtext.

But despite the widespread positive reception of female gurus in the United States, the figure of the female guru remains somewhat of an Introduction | 15 anomaly in both South Asian and diasporic contexts. Not all female ascetics (celibate renunciates) are gurus; by definition, a guru must have students/followers, and not all female ascetics do. Similarly, not all female gurus are ascetics, though sexually active female gurus are extremely rare. In most cases, female gurus are celibate (and thus, by definition, female ascetics), though some maintain asexual relations with spouses, male partners, and family members.

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