Amma Contracted Taavi Kassila To Lie About Minister Relationship

Amma ordered Rishi Taavi Kassila to lie in his vain 'kiss and tell' autobiography about his relationship with former Finnish minister Tanja Karpela. Amma then forced Kassila to sign a contract declaring that Kassila had written lies. Strange then that Amma and her organization later issued a public statement which implied that they did not know Kassila after deleting all references to Kassila from over 35 webpages of amma.fi .

This evidence was revealed in a text chat between Kassila, who was supposed to be a celibate Amma ashram monk and a jilted girlfriend in her blog 'Tarina rakkauden apostolista'. The blog which was closed down by order of Finnish government officials contained a signed testimony of a teenage girl who Kassila had stalked and tried to seduce.

Kassila, a former film director, has a history of using women to gain fame, power, money and sex. Kassila targets vulnerable women for multiple secretive, short-term relationships. Tanja Karpela, a former Miss Finland who had several difficult divorces after meeting Amma, was used in Amma publicity campaigns which negatively affected her political career. Karpela's colleagues advised her to not go to Amma's Amritapuri ashram just before a tsunami hit it. Kassila irresponsibly and dishonestly told the media that he would protect Karpela whose life had been threatened if she arrived at Amma's Helsinki meeting. This was ironic because Kassila has a reputation for using, abusing and destroying women. Kassila had even used fake names of women to harass and cyberstalk a former girlfriend. The attacks had originated from Kassila's internet address.

The text chat also revealed that Kassila was afraid of a “jealous woman” who had a photograph of him with “his pants down”. This supports the claims that Taavi Kassila used the internet and Facebook to swap sexual photos with women who are half his age. Kassila was afraid that the scandal would wreck his reputation as an Amma monk and yoga and celibacy preacher.

The original text Tarina rakkauden apostolista: Totuus vai maine? may be read with Google's translation: The story of love's apostle : Truth or reputation?

Amma asks her followers to lie for her and has installed serial rapist 'Big' Swami Balu to run all her affairs. Amma and her organization cannot be trusted. Amma while currently touring is asking her helpers to lie in an attempt to smear her former secretary Gail Tredwell aka Gayatri aka Swamini Amritaprana. Amma is avoiding media interviews too. This simply proves that Gail Tredwell's book 'Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion, and Pure Madness' is the dynamite of truth which will cause Amma's house of lies to fall.

Ammabot zombie rampage over Holy Hell book

Following a detailed eyewitness book exposing her involvement with fraud, violence and rape, Amma Amritanandamayi has gone into panic and is refusing media interviews. Her followers in Italy have defected.

Amma has ordered her Ammabots to smear her former handmaiden who she would personally beat and allow Swami Balu to rape. Even before they had read the book, Ammbot HQ was giving bogus, bland, generic 1-star reviews of “Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion, and Pure Madness” by Gail Tredwell aka Gayatri aka Swamini Amritaprana. Unfortunately they also used expressions which reveal that Amma is an ambassador of hate. This is not surprising since Amma, who has been linked to murders, riots and right-wing gangsters, has installed a rapist at the head of her business affairs and ashram life.

Ammabots have also created a hate website to smear Gail Tredwell whose book represents a great threat to Amma's image in the West. Amma is incensed that she cannot use the corrupt Indian government officials to ban the book as she did with school teacher Sreeni Pattathanam. Amma needs money-grabbing sex predators like Rishi Taavi Kassila (who has repeatedly threatened this blog) and Swami Balu to run her criminal enterprises.

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Amma Amritanandamayi - Patron Saint of Amritapuri Rapists

Holy Hell is another book exposing cult mafia leader Amma Amritanandamayi and directly gives evidence of raping, stealing, beatings and murder by Amma and her henchmen who pretend to be celibate Hindu swamis. India's top gurus are exposed for corruption pimping, money laundering, pedophilia and drug taking.

Amma's audacious marketing plan was to take her Kali sacrificing cult scam beyond India's superstitious borders and rebrand it as humanitarian work. She duped a few gullible politicians like Tanja Karpela but most people have higher standards and never believed her scam. But right now thousands of Westerners are being physically and mentally abused in Amma's Amritapuri ashram which has produced sex freaks such as Amma monk 'Rishi' Taavi Kassila.

Kassila who was in court protesting that a blog exposing his herpes-spreading lifestyle had violated his privacy could not deny accusation of sex with teenage girls. Amma had ordered Kassila to repeatedly attack a former girlfriend to shut her up. Her blog pages have been removed to comply with a court order but they have been copied to our blog (see Tarina rakkauden apostolista ). Amma who stopped distribution of a book in India which accuses her of being involved with murders will not be able to stop publication of her ex-secretary Gail "Gayatri" Tredwell's book Holy Hell.

"Ammachi has had sex with several of her swamis, numerous times, before and AFTER they became swamis, all the while she was preaching celibacy as necessary for her devotees."

"Balu was standing on Amma's bed … and Amma was kneeling before him with her head just inches from his groin."

Gail "Gayatri" Tredwell Exposes Amma Violence "Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion, and Pure Madness"

 Gail "Gayatri" Tredwell exposes vicious cult leader Amma in her book Holy Hell: A Memoir of Faith, Devotion, and Pure Madness available from Amazon (and eBookPie as Holy Hell)

Spoiler: Amma has a secret lover,

Amma, universally known as "The Hugging Saint," went through a two-decade transformation from a simple fisherman's daughter to an international wonder worshiped by millions. Gail "Gayatri" Tredwell was there every step of the way—from early devotee to head female disciple, ever-present personal attendant, handmaiden, whipping post, and unwilling keeper of some devastating secrets. At age nineteen, when she was a happy-go-lucky, adventurous lass from Australia, Tredwell never imagined that she would soon be trading her free spirit and skimpy clothing for a life of submission in an ankle-length sari. Her eager decision to serve the young "saint" began with innocence and a pure desire to please her new guru. In time, the relationship transformed into virtual enslavement in which Tredwell was on call 24/7 and worked herself nearly to death in the hope of finding God. Because she became fluent in the Malayalam language and had continual intimate proximity to
 Amma for twenty years, Tredwell is uniquely capable of portraying this famous woman. She tells her tale with straightforward honesty, fairness, and a dash of Aussie snap and wit. Although the guru’s flaws are a necessary part of her story and awakening, she strives to be factual throughout, digging deep to eschew victim frameworks and take responsibility for her own role in accepting the abuse and perpetuating the lies. The book evokes the joys of early devotional life and vibrant images of rural India. Through Tredwell's eyes, we watch a modest and traditional ashram metastasize into a business-oriented, bustling, mega-international organization. We also see how such a dizzying rise created vast opportunity for abuse, deceit, and hypocrisy. Tredwell takes us vividly through her varying stages, starting with naïveté and innocent devotion, then on to dawning awareness and confusion, finally to emotional breakdown and her shocking "enlightenment"—her realization that the liberation she urgently required was is in fact liberation from her own guru. In a gradual yet determined struggle, she managed to untangle herself from the web of myth and indoctrination. Only then was she able to muster her battered but not quite broken spirit and plot her escape. Gail's flight to freedom—her victorious recovery from a life of abuse and disillusionment—displays extraordinary strength and inspiring courage.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

"Holy Hell is Gail Tredwell's captivating, inspiring, instructive story of why as a willing slave she endured her guru's cruelty, insults, hitting, kicking, and terrorizing for twenty years.
In spite of predictable retribution, Tredwell felt morally compelled to expose her guru's lies and her own complicity. Her brave, intelligent memoir is valuable for its depth and searing honesty--a gift to seekers vulnerable to similar widespread misconceptions about spirituality and the role of surrender."
--Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad, coauthors of The Guru Papers:  Masks of Authoritarian Power 

"Writing through the wise lens of hindsight, Tredwell weaves into her fascinating story of liberation from the depths of a modern-day cult, the hidden dangers of blind faith. Her insights drawn from years of personal experience render this book invaluable for individuals considering, or perhaps unaware they are already on, such a path."
--Steven Hassan, author of Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs

"Far more than a cautionary tale, Holy Hell is a captivating, heart-rending, inspiring and instructive story. This intelligent, brave, and lucid account is uniquely valuable for its depth and searing honesty. Gail Tredwell reveals the lies, cruelty, and greed behind her guru’s facade of selfless love, perpetual bliss, and divine perfection. As a willing slave who sacrificed her well-being and sanity on what she mistook for a spiritual path, she endured her guru’s ongoing abuse—from hitting, kicking, and scratching to routinely insulting, humiliating, and terrorizing her with threats. To prevent others from being ensnared by similar traps—in spite of predictable retribution and scapegoating—Tredwell felt morally compelled to tell the truth and reveal the guru’s deceit along with her own complicity. Her resulting memoir is a gift to seekers vulnerable to similar widespread misconceptions about spirituality and the role of surrender." —*Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad, coauthors of The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power*

"Writing through the wise lens of hindsight, Tredwell weaves into her fascinating story of liberation from the depths of a modern-day cult, the hidden dangers of blind faith. Her insights drawn from years of personal experience render this book invaluable for individuals considering, or perhaps unaware they are already on, such a path."—*Steven Hassan, author ofFreedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults and Beliefs*

About the Author

For two decades Gail Tredwell lived in India and served as the personal attendant to Amma, commonly known as "The Hugging Saint." At the end of 1999, she made her daring break from the organization. After years of recovery, she is ready to share the inside story of ashram life and her unique perspective of this famous woman.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Wattle Tree Press (October 22, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0989679403
• ISBN-13: 978-0989679404

› Visit Amazon's Gail Tredwell Page

Amma "On Trial" In The Helsinki District Court

"Amma is God. She knows everything and protects her devotees."

On August 9th, 2013 Sri Mata Amma Amritanandamayi Devi will teleport into the Helsinki District Court to defend her devotee 'Rishi' Taavi Kassila. Cult leader Amma (real name Sudhamani Idamannel) has indoctrinated her followers to believe that she is responsible for everything that happens to them and is always with them. Tragically this includes the misery which the Amma followers must suffer at Amma's Amritapuri ashram in Kerala, South India and suicides and suspicious deaths.

Amma's closest devotee Gayatri (Gail Tredwell) has testified that Amma used extreme violence including breaking a devotees ribs with a powerful kick. Gayatri's interview with US Rolling Stone magazine was never challenged by Amma's legal department (although her US PR department used unethical tricks in a failed attempt to discredit her).

In India Amma wants to criminally prosecute her critics. She tried to harass ex-policeman Sreeni Pattathanam who wrote a book connecting Amma to many suspicious murders. The book alleges that Amma's brother Subhagan alias Sunilkumar was beaten to death for opposing the cult activities of Amma. Amma and her devotees claim that Subhagan committed suicide.

The frightening implication is that those who oppose Amma will suffer divine retribution. However the true cause is physical not mystical. Amma's devotees assaulted residents of Green Avenue, New Delhi with iron bars because they removed an illegal billboard from their own property which had advertised an expired Amma event. Ironically the billboard promoted the slick concept that Amma is a "Hugging Saint" -- even when Amma's hugs lead to broken ribs and crushed skulls!

The most recent murder connected to Amma was 25-year-old Satnam Singh Mann who allegedly was beaten with a cable wire and had his head smashed against a wall. Amma's devotees deceptively and falsely claimed that Satnam was a Muslim who tried to attack Amma. In fact Satnam was a Hindu resident of Amma Amritpuri ashram who was caught up in religious hysteria as he waited to receive a hug from Amma. Religious hysteria is common among Amma's sleep deprived slave workers known as Ammabots.

Amma herself regularly acts as if she is spirit possessed. Amma's act is to roll in the dust, eyes rolling into the back of her head, making strange noises and frothing at the mouth. This supposedly proves that she was in touch with the God. Later Amma claimed to be God herself.

Corrupt gurus in India frequently escape justice for their crimes. We in the West never hear about these crimes. Foreign language slows down the flow of information. Sreeni Pattathanam's important book "Matha Amritanandamayi: Divya Kathakalum Yatharthyavum (Matha Amritanandamayi: Sacred Stories and Realities)" has never been translated.

For the first time in the West, Amma will be on trial when 'Rishi' Taavi Kassila, her representative for 20 years, stands in Helsinki District Court on August 9th, 2013. Amma devotee 'Rishi' Taavi was ordered by Amma to prosecute his former girlfriend for exposing him (and the Amma Math) to accusations of religious hypocrisy. Rishi Taavi preached celibacy but had paid prostitutes, spread herpes and kept a teenage girlfriend. A woman testified that Kassila had tried to seduce her when she was a teenager with an Amma video in her mother's home.

60 year old Kassila believes that Amma is protecting him – but she never protected his female victims! Kassila can escape justice at any time by flying away to Amma's Indian ashram (where he claims to permanently reside). But on August 9th, 2013 in the Helsinki District Court Taavi Kassila will expose Amma to important media criticism (which she has so far escaped). Kassila's legal action is vindictive and flawed. We predict that Kassila will try to settle out of court rather than place Amma on trial.

Defending Gayatri from Amma and Ammabot Attacks

Gayatri, Amma's closest and earliest Western disciple has started to tell the truth about Amma's violent fits,  financial corruption and personal beatings. Since revealing the truth Gayatri has been strongly attacked and slandered by Ammabots who, while admitting that she is a good and sane person, cannot accept her public statements. One Ammabot,  Shaktidas, admitted that the charges against Amma were of no concern because Amma is the guru. This is how a true cult member thinks.

In support of Gayatri (Gail Tredwell) we reprint a comment in the Rolling Stone discussion section.

"There has been much speculation re Gail Tredwell's motivations in waiting so long to speak out. As one of the people who has actually engaged in face to face conversation with her in recent months I would like to say that the reason she did not speak out straight away after she left was because she was SO TRAUMATISED by the abuse she has suffered. Abuse which is far more than what was mentioned in the Rolling Stone article.

This abuse was NOT something done as a form of guru - student discipline. It was at times Amma totally losing it. Attacks of extreme temper in which she screamed at Gail, yelling obscenities. She was hit, scratched, bitten, pinched, kicked and had her hair pulled out. What had been the odd slap or pinch in earlier years became by the late '90s full blown abuse.

Gail for years accepted this abuse. I think at first she may also have believed that this was part of her role as the student and the guru as master. She initially never tried to protect herself. But at times she told me she was almost shaking in fear whilst waiting for Amma to come back after a long darshan. Not knowing what mood she would be in.

This abuse WAS witnessed by others. Including other swamis. She was even hit by Amma when they travelled by car after the programs. The drivers witnessing this abuse. Other persons close to Amma in the ashram witnessed this abuse. It mainly occurred though behind closed doors. Others close to Amma were also abused by her.

Gail used to wear a scarf around her neck to hide any marks causing scratching and bruising that may have been visible. She said at times she felt ashamed and embarrassed lest others see.

She never hit Amma back or yelled back at her. Although towards the end she did put up her arms to defend herself and get into defensive positions just as the blows were coming at her.

It took years for Gail to get over the trauma of what had happened to her. She had to undergo therapy. She was also fearful of retribution if she spoke out. She had nightmares and could not sleep. She was also embarrassed in so many ways about what had happened to her and what she had allowed to happen to her.

For years she just wanted to not think about it all.
But also knew that she would never be truly free unless she faced up to what had happened to her. Which is what motivated her to write her book. As much as to tell the world her story. Also for her to regain her power.

I don't think Gail hates Amma. I think she now sees her more than anything for who she is. She feels compassion for her as a human being. She also has fond memories of the GOOD times she spent with Amma in the early days.

And no, despite what happened to her she is NOT a crazy person. Still has a fine sense of humour and is able to laugh at herself as well as at some of the things that happened. "

"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.

Amma Violence And Corruption In Rolling Stone Magazine 2012

Expose of the physical violence and financial corruption of Amma Amritanandamayi in "The Big Squeeze: The Guru Who Turns Hugs Into Gold" by David Amsden for Rolling Stone magazine [August 16, 2012. Issue 1163]. Amma's first, closest Western devotee, Gayatri who was later renamed Swamini Amritaprana after be admitted into Amma's inner circle describes beating by Amma upon herself and others. Amma siphoned off money and gold to her six siblings and parents allowing them to obtain luxury palatial houses. Amma's current devotees deny the allegations but their denials are suspicious as we have seen with the Amma Rishi Taavi Kassila sex scandal cover-up involving fake celibacy, genital herpes and attempted seduction of minors.

Gayatri (Swamini Amritaprana), who was with Amma for 20 years, smuggled out under a blanket in 1999, kept silent until 2012, is writing a book currently titled  “For The Love of God: A Memoir Of Faith, Devotion And Pure Madness”.

Update 8/23/2012:  "The Big Squeeze: The Guru Who Turns Hugs Into Gold" is free for online readers.