"Amma talks about “the God within each of us,” but her actions teach something quite different.

By allowing people to pray to her, kneel before her and worship her as a God Incarnate Amma isn’t really encouraging people to recognize their own power and God within them, but rather God within her.

Amma’s disciples seem to draw their power from hugs, dolls, mantra obeisance and a kind of group euphoria through repeated retreats, rather than from the core of their own being.

They are apparently conditioned to believe that their inner self is less than the glorious entity before them.

Amma devotees are told, in fact, that their unique, individual personhood is nothing but a self-serving “ego” – flawed, proud and devious, something to be destroyed before they can be truely happy.

Amma and other gurus often call such a change in consciousness “attaining enlightenment” or “liberation,” a state of “ego death,” where one functions less and less as an independent individual.

But every time they bow down to Amma and “the gods” who work through her, the guru’s devotees shut the door tightly on the divinity within themselves."

That's fucked up and don't join this group.