on 3/13/05 10:39 AM, luzalma1 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This statement was emailed to the Amma satsang groups by one of
Amma's former swamis when he left the organization. He was the Joint
Secretary in charge of accounts, administration, banking and
investments. He was offered money by the ashram if he would retract
what he wrote, but he has courageously stood by his words despite
being now under financial pressure. He recently started a wholesale
export business for religious and devotional items. The quality and
prices of his merchandise seem very good. Anyone interested should
check out his website www.celextel.com
IDEAS IN REALITY - INSIDE STORY
My life of Twenty-Two Years as a Monastic was of never ending
struggles in trying to bring the various Spiritual Ideas as Reality
in my Life. While attempting to narrow down the gaps between the
Ideas and Reality, I finally chose to observe my Life in Reality and
had to give up the Ideas that remained unrealistic in my Life.
Chastity was the main Idea that had failed to become Reality in my
Life primarily due to the highly stimulating environment that I was
put in.
Not only in the individual level, but also in the Organization
level, I have seen wide gaps when the ideas are put into practice.
To narrate a few instances:
1. Just before the Inauguration of the Hospital at Cochin, we had
suggested Amma to declare that Hospital as a Charitable One. But
Amma had firmly told us that Amma would declare it as a FREE
Hospital as that being Amma's real intention while establishing the
same. Under the Indo-US Agreement, to get the complete waiver of
Customs Duty for all the Medical Items to be Imported, the Ashram
also has given an Irrevocable Undertaking to the Government of India
that the Hospital would provide Medical Treatments at Free of Cost.
But in Reality, as everyone here knows, the Ashram Hospital at
Cochin is not a Free Hospital; Neither it could be considered to be
a Charitable One as Certain Percentage of Beds have not been set
aside as Free Ones for the use of Deserving Poor Patients. Many of
the Deserving Patients from the Poorest Strata of the Society are
turned away by the Hospital; Few of the luckiest ones get Subsidy;
Persons from the Middle Class of the Society get affordable
Treatment and the Affluent ones get the Treatment at a Competitive
Rate. The Math which is a Charitable Trust is not supposed to run
the Hospital like a Commercial Establishment as it is doing right
now. When would the Ashram make the Hospital at Cochin as a Free or
a Charitable One in Reality ?
2. The Ashram now claims to have completed 15,000 Houses to the
Deserving Poor under the current Housing Scheme. In Reality, the
Ashram has constructed not more than 7,500 Houses [50%] so far. The
Ashram also is claiming to have spent about Rs.28,000/= per House.
But in Reality, the cost incurred by the Ashram for each of the
House is not more than Rs.14,000/= [50%]. Why are the False
Claims ?...
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