Business family

Amritanandamayi has been often asked to explain the sudden and tremendous wealth of her family. According to Gail Tredwell, the devotees donations have been partly funneled to their pockets. Amritanandamayi's explanation adds a little more crack to her compassionate Saint image.

Does she admit that she fooled us?

Amritanandamayi finally broke silence regarding the current issue. Her answer is now echoed in many newspapers. She logically claims that Gail Tredwell's allegations are false. One of the statements that she makes to protect herself upsets us.

Not an Open Book

An anonymous contributor sent us the following statements about the ashram's books.

Bharatiya Vichara Kendra support

Attack on Amritanandamayi Math is an Attack on all Hindu Religious Institutions. This is the title of an article published in The New India Express. We wondered why there was this notice at the end of the publication : (The author is the director of Bharatheeya Vichara Kendram). What does it means?

Is Amritanandamayi weak and unwise?

A new document has been uploaded online. It seems to have been created by devotees and it is intended to support Amritanandamayi by revealing some truths about Gail Tredwell. What does it say?

Attack against Mumbai Mirror

The online magazine Mumbai Mirror has published some extracts of Gail Tredwell's book in an article called In the grip of a hug. It is now flooded with offensive comments, emanating from readers who blame the magazing for being unprofessional. Who are these commenters?

Religious debate

Some Indian media talk about "Holy Hell", some don't. The internet users are left alone to tear themselves apart on social media. The debate is drifting toward religion. Comparison between religions. Which is the best? We would like to clearly assert our position regarding this topic.

Articles and video related to "Holy Hell" in Eastern media

Since February 18 2014, Keralan media have started to talk about Gail Tredwell's book "Holy Hell". This posts gathers the articles in english, dealing with the online wildfire that followed.

Just shut up and everything will be fine!

This could be the lesson that the Ever Radiant Truth wants us to learn. In face of criticism her reaction remains the same since the 80's : legal threats!

Identity theft

Within a few days, Gail Tredwell's book "Holy Hell" has gone viral all over the Indian language Keralan and wider Indian media. Amma's devotees replied in an illegal way.

Are Indians fed up with the Mother of Compassion?

As soon as the Malayalam online media Indiavision, Madhyamam and Reporter talked about Gail's Tredwell's book, the Indian internet users rushed to their computer to support and comment these publications.

Money shortage?

ETW doesn't deny it, 60% of the donations are poured into a foreign bank account. The official speeches assert that it is a precaution in case there is less donation one day : "These cash reserves secure the funding of ongoing projects and help offset possible shortages". There is something wrong with this explanation.

Poor answer from the Swiss Amma center

Following the publication of an article about Gail Tredwell's book in the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger, the Swiss Amma Center added a reply on its website. Unsurprisingly, they say that it's all false. What they say to support Amma cannot be taken seriously. The quotes are based on Google's automatic translation.

Translation of article in Tages Anzeiger

An article entitled Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Umarmerin Amma has been published in the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger in February 2014. The automatic translation makes it sound weird, so hard for the english speakers to understand much of it. This is a more suitable translation. In the last paragraph "TA" stands for the name of the newspaper.

Mataji by Sujit Saraf

A lot of devotees want to convince themselves that Gail Tredwell is the only person in the world who is critical against Amritanandamayi. They want to believe that the other critics are just blindly supporting Gail. It cannot be further from the truth.

Non-english critics

This article gathers the critics which are not written in English. You can use google translate to try to understand their content.