For The Past 30 Years, Amma Has Dedicated Her Life To The Uplift Of Suffering Humanity Through The Simplest Of Gestures, An Embrace. In This Intimate Manner, Amma Has Blessed And Consoled More Than 30 Million People Throughout The World. Wherever She Travels, Be It In India, America Or Europe, Thousands Flock To See Her. They Seek Her Boundless Love And Compassion, Her Comfort And Her Advice. This Book Is A Collection Of Amma’s Answers To Questions Asked During Her Programs In The West Since 1999. Some Were Put To Her In A Formal Setting, But Most Were Asked As She Was Giving Darshan, By Those Sitting At Her Side And Those Resting In Her Arms. Here, Amma Speaks On A Vast Range Of Topics, Including The Nature Of Birth And Death, Worldly Relationships, War And Peace, And Spiritual Practices And Philosophy. No Matter The Question, Amma Answers In Her Own Inimitable Earthy Style, Full Of The Love Of A Mother And The Wisdom Of A True Spiritual Master. She Presents The Most Esoteric Of Spiritual Truths In A Manner So Simple That Even A Child Could Understand. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.

Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 2010).

Amma is an ancient Chinese healing art, together with accupuncture and herbalism it forms the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine. This is a comprehensive textbook for students of Oriental bodywork.

"[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives. . . . No other book on South Asia has material like this." —Ann Grodzins Gold In Amma's Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a female Muslim spiritual healer in Hyderabad, South India. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger describes Amma's practice as a form of vernacular Islam arising in a particular locality, one in which the boundaries between Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity are fluid. In the "healing room," Amma meets a diverse clientele that includes men and women, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian, of varied social backgrounds, who bring a wide range of physical, social, and psychological afflictions. Flueckiger collaborated closely with Amma and relates to her at different moments as daughter, disciple, and researcher. The result is a work of insight and compassion that challenges widely held views of religion and gender in India and reveals the creativity of a tradition often portrayed by Muslims and non-Muslims alike as singular and monolithic.

Love for grandma knows no bounds! When she's too sick to see the holy lights of the Ganga Dussehra Aarti, her daughter and grandson make a promise—they'll bring the magic to HER! Amma is too sick to make the pilgrimage to the dazzling Ganga Dussehra Aarti. Stubbornly, she refuses to eat or drink until she witnesses the sacred river's lights. Heartbroken, Meena and Duggu make a promise—they'll bring the aarti to her! With only twenty-four hours and a tight budget, Duggu and his mother, Meena, embark on a wild journey. Every bus is full, prices soar, and each step seems to bring a new hurdle. Will Meena and Duggu be able to bring the aarti's dazzling lights to Amma in time? If you are a big fan of heartwarming stories about family love, thrilling journeys across India, and the unbreakable power of a family promise, you won't want to miss this! Buy “A Thousand Miles for Amma” today!

The Lord’s Prayer unites Christians of all traditions. It is the first and perhaps only prayer that people learn by heart. However, its patriarchal and kingdom imagery do not resonate universally today. How do we pray the prayer Jesus taught us in ways which are authentic and life-giving? This volume, emerging from years of praying the Lord’s Prayer, offers a series of prayers and poems written in response to it. They wrestle with its central images and bring our own stories and relationships into dialogue with it. Each prayer uses the address Abba or Amma: Aramaic terms of intimate address to God as father or mother which reflect Jesus’ usage, drawing on the abbas and ammas of the Desert Tradition as well as our own parental relationships. It aims to integrate our whole human journey into the vocation of being a follower of Jesus. An extended introduction explores why praying the Lord’s Prayer is significant, how it is problematic, and how contemporary theological reinterpretations offer fresh perspective on it.

Amma Meiga is a gripping horror novel that plunges readers into the eerie world of Reena and her siblings, bound by the secrets of their family. When they uncover the terrifying mysteries behind the pink door, they face ancient evil and unspeakable horrors that test their courage. Set in a haunting castle, this dark tale explores the themes of survival, fear, and the unknown. With vivid imagery and intense suspense, Amma Meiga will leave readers on edge, offering a chilling journey into the depths of a family's darkest secret.

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, the daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit. In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely forgotten or unacknowledged women who, threatened with imprisonment for treason and sedition, relentlessly and selflessly gave toward the revolution.

On the life and work of Sister Graham Carol, 1897-1989; articles and reminiscences.