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clipped from news.bbc.co.uk For 30 years Indian spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, to give her her real name, has been hugging people, leading some to give her a saintly nickname. The time it takes and money it costs to fly over from Australia is worth it for a hug with Amma Suraj Vagjiani This really is as simple as it sounds. Australian Suraj Vagjiani is testament to the sort of devotion that Amma commands. When he heard she was appearing in London he scraped together £650 for a one-way ticket just to see her Hugging all over the world: Amma in New York, Santiago, Zurich, Rio But there's more than just a cuddle being dished out here. Her charity, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, has UN consultative status and claims to have built more than 36,000 homes and several hospitals for India's poor. While continuing to hug, she explains through a translator that "everything in this world has a vibration". "Every emotion that you can think of has a vibration," she says. "Love is a very special, very uplifting vibration.