{"id":2083,"date":"2005-08-22T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T16:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2083"},"modified":"2005-08-23T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T14:44:55","slug":"amma_is_unharme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/amma_is_unharme\/","title":{"rendered":"“Amma is unharmed.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mata Amritanandamayi, the world-famous \u00c2\u201chugging saint\u00c2\u201d whose charitable trust runs schools and hospitals all over the world, is safe after being attacked yesterday by an unidentified assailant. The attempted stabbing occurred in the Kollam district of Kerala, where the spiritual leader is based.<\/p>\n\n

Reports say her followers wrestled the attacker on to the ground before he could reach the stage where she was leading prayers for 18,000 people.[BBC<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Two of the disciples who rushed to protect their leader experienced minor injuries.<\/p>\n\n

Mata Amritanandamayi, (“Mother of Absolute Bliss”) or \u00c2\u201cAmma\u00c2\u201d as she is sometimes called cautioned against revenge:<\/p>\n\n

\nMs Amritanandamayi said on Monday she wanted her followers to forgive the attacker.<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n“All those who are born will die one day. I am going ahead keeping this reality in mind,” she said.<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n“I will carry on. I will continue to give darshan to the devotees coming here to meet me. I don’t want my [followers] to create any problem for what had happened yesterday.”[BBC<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Hail Lucifer<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n

\nThe Indian Express newspaper said the attacker may have been a follower who was expelled recently.[BBC<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

The spiritual leader’s website<\/a> had this statement:<\/p>\n\n

\nAugust 21, 2005 – Latest News from Amritapuri<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nAmma is unharmed. She is giving Devi Bhava darshan now. Stranger with a hidden knife rushes to the stage during Amma’s bhajans. Devotees overpowered him and have handed him over to the police. None of today’s Devi Bhava programs were interrupted by this incident.<\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mata Amritanandamayi, the world-famous \u00c2\u201chugging saint\u00c2\u201d whose charitable trust runs schools and hospitals all over the world, is safe after being attacked yesterday by an unidentified assailant. The attempted stabbing occurred in the Kollam district of Kerala, where the spiritual … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}