Amma is known at the hugging guru, a saintly woman from India who has hugged millions of her devoted followers when they come for darshan. The practice of darshan is to receive the guru's blessing, and sometimes Amma would hug people, other times give them Hershey's kisses, and sometimes fruit. It didn't matter. The message is the same: God's love is overflowing with abundance.
One thing that is particularly dear to Amma's heart is awakening the female energy within this dimension. Even as a spiritual teacher in India, she received criticism for being a woman who practiced some of the sacred rituals previously only male priests did. India still has a culture that worships the male aspects of the Divine while completely ignoring or denigrating the female aspects of Divinity. For this reason, Amma feels our world needs us women to awaken. Without the feminine principle in life, we reap death and destruction. It is only through the female principle that birth and regrowth can occur.
Amma talks about Awakening Universal Motherhood for all people, but in particular for women. We must learn to cherish our femininity and use it to better our world. She talks about the arrogance of the male culture that doesn't even see the miraculousness of many of the women who struggle daily to overcome obstacles in all areas of their lives placed there by structures that were meant to keep them subservient. She talks about how we have the power to overcome any physical obstacles when we plug into our Universal Motherhood.
She is a very powerful role model for all men and women.
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