Bronte writes: The following email, posted on the ex-amma website, is from a former insider devotee who claims she was on the edge of Amma's inner circle for many years. This is what she claims to have seen. Jayson, When I referred to her organization as being masquerading I am reffering to my own experience and that which I have learned through informative websites (all of which have been posted in this forum on prior posts). Amma offers no accounts of her massive revenues she collects on us tours, at all. Her math [ashram] in india is the second largest receiver of foreign funding in the entire country. Think about all the outsourcing of labour that goes on in that country with all the computer technology, clothing, phone sales etc... and you will be amazed at how much revenue that must equal. Yet all amma has to show for it are these institution which generate MORE revenue and are not charitable. There are so many rumors mixed with factual evidence (very hard to collect because of her unaccountability in her country) about her hospital being a not of a charitable nature at all. They exaggerate the free things they do and neglect to mention that they are counting subsidy as charity. For exaple say you need surgery in cochin. There are three hospials. AIMS (ammas hospital) will in some case offer it to you for less (were talking ten percent maybe) than the competition. And that is masqueraded as charity here in the west. Amma herself has said this is charity. The housing is done with mostly government labour (RSS volunteers/militia) and is largely funded by them as well. Amma takes full credit though. This is a fact and has been spoken about in other forums. As for her schools, the so called charitable medical college has two, yes two students who are allowed to attend for free and they must PAY the institution back upon graduation! This is called charity? The schools for younger are private schools, requiring tuition and are not cheap by indian standards. Only the middle class kids get to go. This is called charity. One only has to go to india and start talking to some of the staff at these institutions to get a real feel for the mockery. Some have spoken to westerners about this. The truth is slowly coming out. I personally witnessed many poor, destitutes being barred entry from her programs in india. They were treated as thieves when really they just weren't the class of peole who would patronize the show (and it is just as much a merchandizing spectacle as it is in the west). I personally know westerners who worked at AIMS who witnessed the deception. I have just been around it too long and have seen ammas attitudes and that of the devotees directly instructed by her to treat poverty with haughty contempt. I have personally witnessed amma fawning over wealthy businessmen in india to solicit funds. I have seen her do it in the west as well. I know the protocol she gives her disciples when any big money is around. I have seen her spend hours in her private room with VIPS in india and the west. Some aggressive panhandling. An ironic but not overly imporant instance that changed my outlook was when on u.s tour the swami was singing a particularly beautiful devotional song to the divine mother lalita and abruptly halted it when the mayor of lyle (chicago suburb) came in. He was given a chair seat right on the stage over amma and the darshan, where the singing had formerly been taking place, and was showered with attention and presents. I was there shocked thinking about how amma says that the deities are present when singing to them and how we should be so concentrated to never miss a beat or mispronounce a syllable and here right in front of amma the mayor of lyle gets precedence over the divine mother. Like I said I was on the fringes of the inner circle. Much more inside than visiters, I spent years in india and did all us tours but I still was never given any authority over any charities so I have no documents. She only gives control to her indian devotees whom she claims are much more devoted than us. They are just more brainwashed from a culture that breeds ignorance. They have no options once having given up thier lives to the math. Even if they saw corruption whom would they tell. They could easily be killed as many have. And to Dlaw. I value my life, thank you. I know too many frothing at the mouth, psychotic devotees in the area I live in alone. I would have to move or live in fear if I told you who I was. Plus I am betting amma doesnt have psychic abilities and wont sick any dogs on me unless I reveal who I am. It should be apparent from my knowledge of the workings of the us tour that I am credulous. I will write more. I have so many experiences to share about the mind control, ammas real personality and misrepresentation of charities but one can only read the previous postings of all these sincere ex cult members to see that it is all redundant.
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