![](images/bullet_searchcountries.gif) |
![](images/groups_photos/Ammachi.jpg) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Mata Amritanandamayi Math
![](images/g_officialname.gif) Mata Amritanandamayi Math
![](images/g_altname.gif) Holy Mother Ammachi, Amrita, Amma
![](images/g_foundersname.gif) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, aka Mother Ammachi (1953-)
![](images/g_currentleaders.gif) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, aka Mother Ammachi (1953-)
![](images/g_foundingplace.gif) India
![](images/g_headquarters.gif) Kerala, India
![](images/g_educational.gif) Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University
![](images/g_organization.gif) include Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Technologies, Amrita Research Labs
![](images/g_books.gif) Darshan: The Embrace, The Path of the Mother, Messages from Amma
![](images/g_broadcasts.gif) Amrita TV
![](images/g_beliefs.gif) Mother Ammachi claims to be an incarnation of the popular Hindu god Krishna, or more specifically, a female incarnation of one of Krishna’s gopis (girlfriends). She teaches a form of kundalini yoga, in which the life force rises up the spine via the seven chakras to the top of the skull, when enlightenment is attained.
![](images/g_commentary.gif) The movement has developed an "Integrated Amrita Meditation Technique®"
![](images/g_countries.gif) Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dubai, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Réunion, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
![](images/g_languages.gif) include English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Malayalam, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
![](images/g_resources.gif) www.apologeticsindex.org/a114.html
cultofthehuggingsaint.com
www.amazon.com/Holy-Hell-Memoir-Devotion-Madness/dp/0989679403
brontebaxter.wordpress.com/blowing-the-whistle-chpt-9-amma-the-mother-saint-hugging-away-your-personhood
![](images/g_news.gif) www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-hugging-saint-20120816
![](images/g_sites.gif) www.amma.org
www.amritapuri.org
pathofthemother.com
|