Spiritually-hungry foreigners flock to 'Amma' in thousands

Kollam (Kerala), Oct 2 - Koichi Kanematsu was doing his bit for the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata when a chance meeting with India's hugging saint 'Amma' made him give up an easy life in Japan and embrace spirituality for good. Within months of that encounter in 2000, the now 43-year-old moved into this sprawling ashram of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi or 'Amma'...