After Baba, it is Amma’s turn now

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After Baba, it is Amma’s turn now

ANUPAM SHESHANK

Amma: Destination Ranchi

 

*Ranchi, Feb. 22:* The state capital is all set to be under the

protracted spell of spiritualism with Mata Amritanandamayi, or Amma, set

to visit the city on March 25, a month after Baba Ramdev’s yoga camp.

 

Amma, as she is called by millions of followers all over the world, will

be visiting Jharkhand for the first time if the visit materialises.

 

She is also known as the hugging saint as she individually meets all her

devotees and visitors and holds them close to her bosoms.

 

The spiritual leader, who has “mesmerises the world with her message on

loving and giving”, will arrive here along with 400 disciples from

Lucknow, said Madhu Maheswari of the Ranchi chapter of the Mata

Amritanandamayi Seva Samiti.

 

She is expected to arrive in Ranchi by road late in the evening of March

24. After taking rest, Amma will hold the congregation from 6 pm the

next day. She is scheduled to fly to Calcutta and then to a foreign

country the next day, informed Maheswari.

 

The congregations involving Amma is know to stretch for up to 30 hours

without a pause for food or water. Clad in a white sari, she

individually holds all her devotees to her bosom and whispers “loving”

words into their ears. And so, the officials concerned could not say

when the event would come to an end.

 

Maheshwari confirmed that Amma’s schedule for March 26 has not been

fixed because no one knows how much time she will take to individually

meet all those who have come for her /darshan/.

 

Amma is scheduled to hold over 20,000 followers to her bosom on the

Zilla School campus from 6 pm on March 25.

 

The programme to visit Ranchi was reportedly finalised last month and a

devotee of the spiritual mother from her Kerala-based ashram, Swami

Jaikishan, is already camping in Ranchi to do the needful.

 

“The devotees will be given tokens with time mentioned for /darshan/ of

Amma. The visitors will not be charged any money,” he said, and added

that Amma is abroad and likely to reach India in the first week of March.

 

The trust set up by the spiritual leader runs schools, colleges,

hospitals and various other charitable bodies.

 

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