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peterjohnson ®

10/29/2009, 05:38:56
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New to the forum so apologies if this has already been covered but seeing this double page spread in the Daily Mirror 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/23/the-hugging-saint-who-has-cuddled-20-million-people-115875-21767192/

was what made me look on the web to see what Guru Maharaji was up to these days and hence led me to ex-premie.org

For american readers this paper is the 3rd biggest in the UK with over 1.5 million sales daily.  

The tone of the whole piece is surprisingly positive - DLM would have killed for publicity like this. Only one slightly negative comment which is soon brushed over.

<I also ask about accusations from ex-devotees that her ashram - which began in the cowshed next to her home and is now home to 3,000 people in 18-storey residences - is run like a cult."My path is the path of love - if others see it as a cult I've no comment,">

Seem familiar to anyone?

Pete







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snow-white ®

10/29/2009, 06:47:19
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Hi Pete and welcome, nice to see you here. New people on the forum always makes me feel good.

Amma - yes she is very successful, and very cult-smelling. Hugging devotees is not one of guru maharaji favorites. If there was a way of doing it without actually touching people, maybe. But he hugs them within inside, it's much more profound.







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10/29/2009, 06:59:19
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"We need to see a frog as a frog and an elephant as an elephant," she says.

Well said, Amma.

I would add, "and a cult as a cult."

"Around 30 have travelled from the ashram in Kerala - full-time disciples, who wear the white robes, must be celibate and fully dedicated to the Amma way of life."

Sounds a lot like Prem Rawat's ashram vows and his demands for twenty-four hours a day of satsang, service and meditation.

Sorry, but I'm a bit sour on anyone who would accept "disciples" or allow people to take such extreme steps and live according to a specific "way of life" in the name of "light, love and understanding." 

If it looks like a frog, hops like a frog and croaks like a frog...

(a reference to cults and not Amma...)

A belated welcome to the forum to you Peterjohnson! 

Bob Tooker






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peterjohnson ®

10/29/2009, 08:20:23
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I see not all is sweetness and light for Amma lol - she even has her own  "Mike Finch"   !!!

Jovan Jones - Chasing the Avatar - may order this and Mike's book together.

http://cultofhuggingsaintamma.wordpress.com/

I found the similarities with DLM spooky and scary !!!!!!!

The more it changes the more it stays the same  .............







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