and more victims are drawn into her cult every day.
Surely it is wrong to remain silent when thousands of trusting and innocent people not only give money to this organization, thinking it goes to help the poor and suffering, and - worse - trust their spiritual life to the guidance of a charlatan, often abandoning jobs, family, and loved ones and moving to India to live a life of poverty in Amma's shadow. If you who are reading this essay were or are one of Amma's inner circle, I encourage you to do the right thing. Insiders report there is also genuine physical danger, for anyone living in India who speaks out.
AMMA HUGGING SAINT FREE
This superstition makes it difficult for members struggling to break free from the cult to find the courage to speak the truth. But the disciples are afraid of this guru, who, her biography alleges, has beings in the unseen who will retaliate against anyone who speaks out about the Divine Mother. Now, whether Tredwell's searing expose makes a difference in bringing down this false spiritual empire depends very much on other victims boldly stepping forward and sharing their own stories. "Rolling Stone" was able to corroborate the claim of physical abuse by Amma through the testimony of another one of Amma's female attendants, who would not reveal her name except to the magazine. Tredwell was extensively quoted in an August 2012 "Rolling Stone" article on Amma regarding some of these allegations, although the book (and the worst of the allegations) only recently came out (now, in November, 2013, which is when I write this). And she speaks of being raped herself, repeatedly, by one of these same swamis, and names him. Tredwell speaks of her discovery that, while claiming to be a lifelong celibate, Amma secretly has sex with several of her closest swamis (monks who have taken lifelong vows of celibacy). Tredwell tells of being beaten, clawed, and bitten by Amma, who would succumb to fits of rage over small mistakes made by her attendants. Tredwell's riveting book recounts stories of donations intended for charity being converted into gold jewelry and hidden under the garments of Amma's sanyasis (monks) as they passed through customs - then the gold being passed to Amma's family to make them fabulously rich. In the book, Tredwell recounts her personal experience in the ashram, where she admits she was complicit in covering up all sorts of ashram secrets, in a misguided attempt to protect the guru's misdeeds from public view (believing, as all guru cultists do, that the guru is God in human form and therefore exempt from human standards of right and wrong). The book is called "Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion, and Pure Madness" and was written by Gail Tredwell, formerly called Gayatri - the woman who for 20 years served as Amma's closest personal attendant and chief female disciple. Since then, a book has come out that does a far better job than anything I could ever say to reveal the truth about this guru. The article below was written by me some time back.
Recognize themselves as magnificent, powerful expressions of God.” Worship you as God Incarnate is not the behavior of someone who wants people to Allowing people to pray to you, kneel to you, and While speaking fine words about 'the God within each of us,' her actions Men and women, giving them dolls to babble to and telling them she's their GlobalistĪmma doll devotee "Amma's brand of religion is a return to the infantile. Amma the Hugging Saint': Mother-Cult Leader, U.N.
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