Health business

We have previously posted a few information about HHV, namely the Holistic Health Village, a project that was to be carried out by Mata Amritanandamayi's organization. We have found more details about this hectic plan.

Children trade?

The charities related to adults are broadly advertised but Amma scarcely talks in detail about the way she takes care of the children. Her organization runs an orphanage. What good is she doing to the world thanks to that? We don't know much about it so we can only rely on the word of mouth from bloggers and online commenters.

1 Rupee = 1 Dollar

Embracing The World/Mata Amritanandamayi Math likes to emphasize on all the money spent to help the people in need. We have noticed that the significant means mainly come from powerfull Western partners. Indeed, Amma gives millions of dollars but it is often on behalf of others NGOs, like Healthcare Charities, Inc for instance. Today we would like to introduce a new financial partner to our readers. It is called Direct Relief.

Financial discrepancies between Indian and American organizations?

Four pdf documents have been uploaded last year on ex-amma yahoo group : the Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax form, issued by the Internal Revenue Service of the US government (IRS), filled by Healthcare Charities, Inc (HCI).

FCRA 2013 - 2014 = 0.69!

Usually the New Year is the moment when we make good resolutions and promise to do our best to respect our decision. These kind of moments can be life changing. When we saw the new FCRA for 2013-2014, we thought that such miracle had happened in Embracing The World.

Fanciful FCRA

Some of our posts deal with the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). Each year Indian NGOs must declare to the government the funds that they got from foreign countries. Being strongly connected to Western countries, the M.A. Math cannot escape the rule. The accounts given by Amritapuri are available online.
Some devotees of the "Thugging Saint" pretend that we are misunderstanding the numbers, so let's take a closer look at them.

Compassionate schools

Amritanadamayi has build 49 Amrita Vidyayalam schools and 9 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham so far. How does her compassion come in action inside her blessed institutions?

For immediate release in the USA

The Facebook page Guruphiliac which aims at warning against the many spiritual fraudsters of this modern world has published a media release to expose Amritanandamayi's controversial issue. Feel free to forward it to your local media outlet as her 2014 US tour seems to be less glorious than the ones that she used to make before. Here is a full copy of this release :

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.

Not an Open Book

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

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.

One recognizes a tree by its fruit

Mata Amritanandamayi is a guru, a spiritual guide. It means that some people supposedly try to live by her example and teachings. How to recognize a real spiritual guide? Blossoming spiritual followers should be the sign, for guidance is the reason to be of a guru. When we try to find official informations about Mata Amritanandamayi what do we find?

We have a few questions for AEPL's director

Following the publication of a post on Embezzling The World, the director of Amrita Enterprise Private Limited (AEPL) is in a good mood to provide some clarifications regarding the links between his corporation and the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM). Perfect because we have a few questions for him.

Amma lies re "charity" AIMS hospital to benefit tax exemption

Have you ever heard about Amrita Execare? "AIMS has launched a unique healthcare programme ... an evening clinic dedicated to professionals, executives and entrepreneurs". Executives? Entrepreneurs? This is definitely not a charitable service.

The tsunami relief

Criticizing Amma always brings about the same reply. Her devotees begin to psalm the endless list of her charitable actions. The message is clear. Even if her organization has bad aspects, the show must go on, for the sake of the poor. The most impressive action was the rehabilitation effort after the tsunami of December 2004. But this relief wasn't as nice and smooth as Amma's official websites claim.

Has she forseen the irregular tax exemption?

The M.A. Math is among a list of 240 irregular tax exemption cases.

Amma Only Gives 10% Foreign Donations to Charity - Report

A report on the ridiculous wealth and money-hoarding of the Hugging Saint, Mata "Ammachi" Amritanandamayi.

Kerala “Hugging Saint” Mata Amritanandamayi gives less than 10% foreign donations to charity. Nearly 63% donated in foreign banks.

What really inspires Amma's devotees?

A phrase says : "one recognizes a tree by its fruits". Amma is a spiritual leader. Where does she leads the people? This ironic post from an Amrita TV viewer is likely to raise the question in our mind. Let's have a look at some of her devotees to have an idea of the kind of light that she brings to the world.