Amma is a gura popularly known as "the hugging saint." She runs an ashram in New Delhi, sells jewelry and other devotional items in an online store, is reported to be the source of divine miracles and has won all sorts of honors from Western elites. She also is a big deal at the UN, where one of her spiritual gatherings was used as an excuse by one executive to dump a $#!+load of scutwork on me.
Outside her circle of devotees, Amma has also inspired a fair degree of criticism, which her followers do not answer with hugs. As Guruphiliac reports, they've shut down a blog, called in the lawyers and laid the smacketh down on anyone who dares to question Amma's divine love.
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