An ex-convict tries the healing embrace of a Mata Amritanandamayi, the Indian “hugging guru” known as Amma, after years of often-brutal contact in New York’s state prison system.
Before last weekend’s event in New York, Amma, the Indian “hugging saint,” had embraced at least 34 million people around the world. It would be two more after my wife and I waited the twelve hours to receive the darshan, or gift.
