"Hugging Saint" Amma's Lyings, Beatings and Cheatings

On stage Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) is presented a saint who smilingly receives hugs and dispenses candies and flower petals. Off-stage Sudhamani Idamannel (Amma) is a brooding petulant dictator who terrorizes who her gullible aides with unpredictable bone-breaking physical attacks.

When you add up all of the wrong and criminal acts associated with Amma, you will see not a saint but a malevolent boss whose gang is involved in crime, lying, cheating and cover-ups at every turn.

Amma monk, Taavi Kassila's inexcusable sexual excesses, which violated several mothers' trusts, shocked teenage girls by attempted seductions and gave at least one cheated partner incurable genital herpes was not the first scandal from which Amma irresponsibly tried to distance herself from the Kassila sex expose.

Nor is Satnam Singh Mann's mysterious murder the only death associated with Amma's ashram to be shrouded in contradictions. It is not the only case of a beating given for trying to get Amma's hug.

Pavithran was also beaten, as reported in 'Indian Currents, Issue 36, September 04, 2005'. "Those who expressed anguish and contacted the Ashram following the attack included former Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, BJP President L. K. Advani, and former Union Minister O. Rajagopal, who himself is a close devotee of the Amma. Amma's ashram falsely claimed to not know Pavithran, even though he had lived at Mata Amritanandamayi ashram as did Satnam Singh Mann (it has been reported). The same outrageous denial was made of Taavi Kassila, another Amma ashram resident.

Mental illness seems to be the alleged cause of problems at Amma's ashram, but is Amma, who beats her devotees to blame? "Even Mata Amrithanandamayi had admitted that many of her devotees and Ashram inmates are mentally deranged persons."

There was also the suspicious death of a French lady, Caroline Abitbole, within the Ashram premises, another Amma controversy which has been covered up, the webpages removed.

A whole community were beaten with iron bars by a 50 man gang of Amma goons because they no longer wanted an Amma billboard taking up their space (after Amma's tour had left) in "Green Avenue" New Delhi. Amma did nothing to help the residents. http://atman.net/guruphiliac/ammarampage.pdf

Amma got Kerala State Government to criminally prosecute Sreeni Pattathanam, for writing "Matha Amritanandamayi: Sacred Stories and Realities" which claimed that all the miracles of Amritanandamayi are bogus, and that there have been many suspicious deaths in and around her ashram, which need police investigation. International pressure stopped the legal harassment.

Amma's huge wealth gives her the ability to corrupt public officials, several of whom find it beneficial to be her devotees.

Amma's ashram devotees live in squalid conditions, sleep only a few hours per night and slave for free while Amma secretly gives obscene amounts of gold and money to her relatives so that each can live in their own palace. Amma's family live like royalty and are both feared and respected. Amma has absolute power.

Amma could be responsible for the neurotic, cruel behavior and lying of her devotees. Amma kicked her masseuse for no reason, cracking her ribs. Amma has slapped, beaten, scratched, pulled hair and throttled her devotees for insignificant and made up offenses, such as not cooking rice to her liking.

Just before Amma's closest and oldest Western devotee, Gayatri, revealed the true horror of life with Amma, in Rolling Stone magazine, another Amma cover up was being planned. Amma's devotees, including high representative Elizabeth Sidon, wife of Rob Sidon, the former Disney employee who now heads up Amma's PR team infiltrated Ex-Amma to destroy Gail Tredwell's (Gayatri's) reputation. Elizabeth Sidon, who also calls herself "Elizabeth Daniels" - deleted "Sidon" from her profile when she realized that she had been caught red-handed.

Rob Sidon, Amma PR man, is apparently the editor-in-chief of a magazine called "Common Ground," and "Elizabeth Daniels" is listed as a staff member on the magazine's staff listing.

Robert Sidon lists the dubious distinction in his online resume of "Achieved world-class news coverage for "Amma", (a rare humanitarian compared to Gandhi and Mother Teresa) in prestige media internationally." Robert Sidon might also add that he is supporting the biggest con of the century for which he will go to hell for helping to cover up the truth. Amma is no saint, no humanitarian. Amma cares nothing for the truth nor her devotees. If the victims could be heard above the professional PR noise then Rob Sidon would slink away in shame from the public gaze just like his wife "Elizabeth Daniels" did.

At this time, Amma's Rishi Taavi Kassila has started a police investigation against one former sexual partner, claiming that he does not have genital herpes. In return, Kassila will be prosecuted for causing bodily harm for giving genital herpes. One would think that an Amma devotee would be more kind - but then again we know that will never happen.

Before she dies, Amma who lives on painkillers and wears incontinence pants, will have left a trail of misery in her wake.