These are indeed very significant needs. The next level up includes your needs revolving around your sense of love and belonging. Now, in Maslowâs opinion when you have your basic bodily needs, feel secure and have a sense of belonging and expression of love you will then go after your esteem needs.
Mata Amritanadamayi, known as Amma the Hugging Saint, is a woman of Indian birth who has amassed a huge worldwide spiritual following.
To some ardent followers, Amma is truly a saint, and they ascribe to her the ability to produce miracles and heal people. These claims have not been widely substantiated. What can be verified is that Amma the hugging saint early in life knew that she must devote her life to the disenfranchised.