Amma in the press

[Guest guest]

Namah Shivaya Bro & Sisters,

 

All this doubt of Amma's purpose and authenticity is rubbing my heart

the wrong way....so I am coming out of the computer in response to the

thread of Amma in the News media and the focus of media on hugs and

long hours..........

 

Is Amma not the Editor of all her media..as she does hug the reporters

& photographers after the interviews. As she polishes her devotees in

the tumbler of life...isn't she polishing the words of the media ?

 

My experience: In 1996, Janani, Amma's photographer of many years, told

me that each shot or flash of a camera depletes Amma's energy (or

something to this affect) and Janani said she had to be very selective

as to when to shoot. With this in mind, despite the fact that Amma has

additional photographers and constant video since about 2000 (when she

enlisted a professional media advisor named Rob to be the media

liaison), I trust that Amma is able to amp up her energy for the media

to maintain the level of love she plans to spread globally. Can

anyone deny that love is the answer to world poverty, greed, and

balanced health (body,mind & spirit) and Amma has a master plan ?

 

ONS,

amritavarshini

 

P.S. GeorgeSon and Linda, clearly love and understand Amma's reality.

 

On Thursday, July 28, 2005, at 10:50 AM, nierika wrote:

> GeorgeSon wrote:

>

> Why does the media keep fixating on Amma's hugs? I understand the

> secular

> nature of American media. It is also understandable that without the

> "hug"

> angle Amma would be a non-story to the commercial media.

>

> Dear GeorgeSon ~ ah, well, having been in the business of pr in my

> former

> life when I was still able to work, what the media is always looking

> for is

> something that makes a person or situation unique. Amma's darshan is

> certainly

> that.

>

> What I have read, despite the term, "hugging saint," has seemed

> respectful

> and has also usually spoken of the impossibly long hours that Amma

> gives this

> hugging. To any person, this would convey something different, beyond

> the

> usual. I think people are hungry for Love. The media is not ignorant

> ~ Amma is

> the very embodiment of love, and, writing for the usual 8th grade

> (now I'm told

> 5th grade) education level, hugging is something everyone can

> understand as

> an expression of Love.

>

> So I feel no sense of disrespect or negating of Amma or Her importance

> in

> these articles. In fact, they make Her accessible to more people in

> the very way

> that would be most likely to attract them, e.g., Love via the

> hugging. I am

> so thankful Amma is the "hugging saint," for where would I be without

> those

> wonderful hugs. She not only imparts Love, but She imparts much more,

> depending on the need of the person. (Of course, I realize this idea

> is a bit too

> complex for the regular media, but I find no sense of distaste in it

> being left

> out.)

>

> Amma reaches hundreds or thousands of people in the cities where She

> tours

> here in America. Through the media, that reach is extended thousand

> fold or

> more. Jai Ma ~ Linda

>