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MERCI POUR TON SERVICE!<\/h1>\n

Mon parcours de porte-parole d\u00e9vou\u00e9 \u00e0 accus\u00e9 b\u00e2illonn\u00e9<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Imaginez avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 l’un des principaux \u00ab\u00a0insiders\u00a0\u00bb de l’organisation d’Amma pendant plus de dix ans, avoir consacr\u00e9 votre vie \u00e0 son service et avoir d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 sa mission sur le continent europ\u00e9en en tant que son repr\u00e9sentant officiel. Imaginez avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 exclu de l’organisation pour avoir os\u00e9 vouloir \u00eatre honn\u00eate et transparent sur votre chemin et vos choix de vie. Et peu de temps apr\u00e8s, de recevoir l’avis de son avocat vous accusant de crimes que vous n’auriez jamais imagin\u00e9 commettre. Imaginez alors avoir \u00e0 signer un accord et qu’on vous b\u00e2illonne pendant trente ans pour vous laisser en paix.<\/p>\n

Eh bien, c’est ce qui m’est arriv\u00e9 en 1994 et maintenant que je ne suis plus l\u00e9galement li\u00e9 par le b\u00e2illon, contraint de garder le silence sur cette injustice, je pense qu’il est juste de partager la v\u00e9rit\u00e9. J’\u00e9tais accus\u00e9 par les avocats de mon gourou d’abus de confiance, de d\u00e9tournement de fonds et d’appropriation illicite de dons. J’\u00e9tais en \u00e9tat de choc et la seule fa\u00e7on de me sortir de cette situation d\u00e9licate \u00e9tait d’engager un avocat pour me prot\u00e9ger de la col\u00e8re de celle que j’avais aim\u00e9 plus que ma propre vie. Les chiens d’attaque juridique \u00ab californiens \u00bb ne l\u00e2ch\u00e8rent pas prise jusqu’\u00e0 ce que j’accepte de signer une transaction judiciaire en \u00ab France \u00bb avec la branche principale \u00ab indienne \u00bb de l’organisation MA. Heureusement, avant de quitter l’Inde en 1984 pour servir le gourou en Europe, j’avais eu la pr\u00e9sence d’esprit de partir avec une procuration officielle – une protection robuste, en cas de besoin. Qui aurait pu imaginer qu’elle deviendrait un \u00e9l\u00e9ment cl\u00e9 de la protection contre les attaques de mon propre gourou ? Dix ans plus tard, la condition pour \u00eatre d\u00e9charg\u00e9 de mon mandat officiel \u00e9tait la pr\u00e9sentation et l’approbation de la comptabilit\u00e9 pour l’ensemble de la p\u00e9riode. Bien qu’il ne m’ait jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 demand\u00e9 de tenir une comptabilit\u00e9, j’ai heureusement eu, une fois de plus, la pr\u00e9sence d’esprit de conserver scrupuleusement toutes les factures et tickets de caisse, en cas de besoin. Sans cela, j’\u00e9tais condamn\u00e9. J’ai ensuite pass\u00e9 sept mois entiers \u00e0 ne faire que de la comptabilit\u00e9 r\u00e9troactive couvrant les dix ann\u00e9es d’activit\u00e9s au nom du gourou. Au cours de la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode, apr\u00e8s de nombreuses transactions, lorsque les avocats r\u00e9alis\u00e8rent que les activit\u00e9s avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 conduites par respect et ob\u00e9issance aux souhaits du gourou, et en tant que tel, \u00e9galement sa responsabilit\u00e9, et qu’ils ne n’arrivaient \u00e0 rien avec leurs accusations, ils accept\u00e8rent de r\u00e9gler la question \u00e0 l’amiable. La comptabilit\u00e9 fut approuv\u00e9e et la transaction juridique put finalement \u00eatre sign\u00e9e. Mais, bien s\u00fbr, il y avait un mais… c’\u00e9tait cette clause de non-divulgation d’une dur\u00e9e minimale de 30 ans. Quels que soient mes convictions et mes sentiments, je n’avais d’autre choix que de m’y conformer, faute de quoi les tribulations li\u00e9es \u00e0 ce litige fond\u00e9 sur de fausses accusations n’auraient jamais cess\u00e9. Nous avons sign\u00e9 le 29 juillet 1994. J’\u00e9tais \u00e0 la fois profond\u00e9ment soulag\u00e9 et d\u00e9sempar\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Qu’y avait-il dans cet accord qui devait rester si secret ? Sur quoi portait la clause ? Qu’essayait-on de cacher ? Tout d’abord, on me b\u00e2illonnait sur l’existence m\u00eame de la transaction. En outre, il s’agissait plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment du transfert \u00e0 la nouvelle association loi 1901 de l’argent des dons restants et la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 du centre.<\/p>\n

Il me fallut un peu de temps pour que les \u00e9motions s’apaisent et que je finisse par comprendre. Car pendant toutes ces ann\u00e9es, j’avais ob\u00e9i au gourou et essay\u00e9 d’arranger les choses avec la libert\u00e9 qui me restait. Je compris plus tard qu’il s’agissait de cacher que les m\u00e9faits et les transgressions qu’ils avaient tent\u00e9 en vain de me faire endosser au cours de cette proc\u00e9dure \u00e9hont\u00e9e, en essayant de me noyer financi\u00e8rement, socialement et de me r\u00e9duire au silence pour toujours, \u00e9taient en fait fond\u00e9s sur le respect et l’ob\u00e9issance aux ordres du gourou. Mais les abus et les mauvaises pratiques n’\u00e9taient pas \u00e9trangers \u00e0 cette organisation. Un simple coup d’\u0153il \u00e0 mon livre, \u00ab L’Empire d’Amma \u00bb, en r\u00e9v\u00e8le une liste interminable. C’est curieux pour une organisation spirituelle et religieuse qui pr\u00e9tend d\u00e9fendre des valeurs morales et spirituelles \u00e9lev\u00e9es. Des valeurs telles que le respect, l’amour et le service de l’humanit\u00e9, pour lesquelles des dizaines de millions de dollars de dons \u00e9taient collect\u00e9s chaque ann\u00e9e il y a d\u00e9j\u00e0 trente ans.<\/p>\n

Ce qui rendait cette situation encore plus grave, c’est que le gourou m’avait fait accuser \u00e0 tort par ses avocats \u00ab apr\u00e8s \u00bb m’avoir expuls\u00e9 de l’organisation, parce que je refusais d’\u00eatre un autre mensonge cl\u00e9rical : un moine enseignant sup\u00e9rieur et seul repr\u00e9sentant europ\u00e9en avec une vie sentimentale et sexuelle cach\u00e9e en parall\u00e8le. En effet, j’estimais que l’abandon de la robe et le retour \u00e0 la vie la\u00efque \u00e9taient plus une \u00e9volution qu’une r\u00e9gression, car ils impliquaient une preuve rigoureuse et une int\u00e9gration des valeurs et des r\u00e9alisations spirituelles dans le monde, ainsi qu’un rapprochement avec les fid\u00e8les. Je ne r\u00eavais pas de quitter le bercail ou d’abandonner mon sacerdoce. Mais le gourou ne le voyait pas de cet \u0153il.<\/p>\n

Pour ne rien arranger, tout cela s’\u00e9tait produit alors que j’avais disparu de l’administration fran\u00e7aise depuis vingt ans. Je me suis donc retrouv\u00e9 sans aucune ressource personnelle, incapable de pr\u00e9tendre \u00e0 des prestations sociales, de chercher officiellement un emploi et de gagner ma vie. Mon nom avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 sali par le gourou et ses disciples et mon r\u00e9seau d\u00e9truit par leurs mensonges. Je n’avais donc nulle part o\u00f9 aller et ne pouvais m’adresser \u00e0 personne. Ceux qui ont lu mon livre se souviendront que la m\u00e8re de la compassion me demanda initialement d’aller dans n’importe quel pays o\u00f9 elle \u00e9tait inconnue. Elle refusait mon honn\u00eatet\u00e9. Etre un type humble et honn\u00eate ne pouvait pas \u00eatre une bonne id\u00e9e. Mieux valait \u00eatre un VIP escroc. Sauver les apparences \u00e9tait primordial.<\/p>\n

Alors, quel \u00e9tait le probl\u00e8me ? En bref, les activit\u00e9s de l’organisation \u00e9taient en plein essor en Europe et ses programmes permettaient de collecter un nombre croissant de dons. En France notamment, o\u00f9 de nombreux ch\u00e8ques bancaires \u00e9taient remis par les fid\u00e8les, ceux-ci devaient \u00eatre d\u00e9pos\u00e9s sur des comptes bancaires pour pouvoir envoyer les fonds en Inde. Dans les diff\u00e9rents pays o\u00f9 l’organisation \u00e9tait active et o\u00f9 des programmes avaient lieu, c’est-\u00e0-dire au Royaume-Uni, en France, en Allemagne et en Suisse (en Italie, l’organisation \u00e9tait diff\u00e9rente), j’avais contact\u00e9 des juristes et des consultants et j’avais pr\u00e9vu de cr\u00e9er des entit\u00e9s l\u00e9gales \u00e0 but non lucratif avec leurs comptes bancaires respectifs pour recevoir et transf\u00e9rer ce qui \u00e9tait devenu des montants \u00e0 six chiffres. Mais, comme d\u00e9crit en d\u00e9tail dans le livre, chaque fois que je lui proposais de l\u00e9galiser ses activit\u00e9s localement, elle refusait. Elle insistait pour que tout, y compris les comptes sur lesquels \u00e9taient vers\u00e9s les dons et l’argent des ventes, soit en mon nom personnel. Plus tard, cela inclut m\u00eame la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 du premier Centre en Europe. Pour une raison quelconque, elle insista pour que le titre de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 soit \u00e9galement \u00e0 mon nom personnel.<\/p>\n

Vous auriez d\u00fb voir l’expression des guichetiers lorsque j’apparaissais avec un sac \u00e0 dos avec des liasses de ch\u00e8ques qui devaient \u00eatre contresign\u00e9s et dat\u00e9s individuellement, parfois pendant deux heures, en leur pr\u00e9sence. Naturellement, les directeurs de banque furent alert\u00e9s et je fis l’objet d’un examen minutieux quant \u00e0 l’origine de ces fonds. Lorsqu’ils entendirent mes r\u00e9ponses sur leur origine et la raison pour laquelle ils devaient \u00eatre vers\u00e9s sur mes comptes \u00ab priv\u00e9s \u00bb, ils avaient l’air dubitatif. Ils me soup\u00e7onnaient manifestement de vendre de la drogue ou d’exercer une activit\u00e9 ill\u00e9gale similaire. Je re\u00e7us de nombreux avertissements qu’ils se devaient d’informer les autorit\u00e9s fiscales et sociales. Mais je continuais imperturbablement, ancr\u00e9 dans ma foi et dans mon d\u00e9sir d’\u0153uvrer pour le bien commun par l’interm\u00e9diaire de mon gourou bien-aim\u00e9.<\/p>\n

La foi de beaucoup de fid\u00e8les fut mise \u00e0 mal par l’attitude imprudente et irrespectueuse d’Amma. Par exemple, la fid\u00e8le qui vendit sa maison personnelle et fit don du produit de la vente du fond du c\u0153ur pour l’achat d’un Centre en France fut choqu\u00e9e lorsqu’elle r\u00e9alisa que sa donation devait \u00eatre fait \u00e0 mon nom, en tant que personne priv\u00e9e. En raison de la n\u00e9gligence du gourou, je risquais d’\u00eatre poursuivi dans ces pays, en particulier en France o\u00f9 certaines des accusations qui auraient pu \u00eatre port\u00e9es contre moi \u00e9taient imprescriptibles. Les administrations commen\u00e7aient \u00e0 poser des questions, comme l’administration g\u00e9rant les contributions et prestations sociales en France qui consid\u00e9rait le travail r\u00e9gulier effectu\u00e9 par les travailleurs fid\u00e8les d\u00e9sint\u00e9ress\u00e9s dans le nouveau centre comme du travail non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9 et non d\u00e9clar\u00e9. Comme il n’y avait pas d’entit\u00e9 l\u00e9gale, j’\u00e9tais consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme l’employeur peu scrupuleux. L’infraction \u00e9tait grave.<\/p>\n

Ainsi, au nom du gourou refusant toute r\u00e8gle, les avocats californiens m’accus\u00e8rent d’abus de confiance, de d\u00e9tournement de fonds et d’appropriation illicite de dons. En r\u00e9alit\u00e9, je n’avais rien qui m’appartienne, sauf une voiture avec laquelle je parcourais 10 000 km par mois pour donner des satsangs<\/em> dans divers endroits d’Europe – voiture dont je remboursais le cr\u00e9dit avec mes revenus de conf\u00e9rences et d’ateliers ind\u00e9pendants, alors que c’\u00e9tait la gourou elle-m\u00eame qui m’avait dit que je devais cesser le caract\u00e8re b\u00e9n\u00e9vole de mes activit\u00e9s. Au d\u00e9but, en 1984, je squattais une chambre de bonne mansard\u00e9e non isol\u00e9e de 8 m2 au dernier \u00e9tage d’un vieil immeuble, sans salle de bain ni chauffage. Ensuite, j’ai squatt\u00e9 pendant de nombreuses ann\u00e9es la loggia d’une salle de sport, sans salle de bain ad\u00e9quate. Je dormais sur son sol en b\u00e9ton, la t\u00eate litt\u00e9ralement \u00e0 quelques m\u00e8tres des lignes ferroviaires de Paris-Montparnasse. J’avais install\u00e9 des panneaux de contreplaqu\u00e9 pour fermer la loggia et cr\u00e9er un espace un peu priv\u00e9. Ce n’est que depuis que le centre avait \u00e9t\u00e9 achet\u00e9 en Alsace que j’avais une \u00ab chambre \u00bb \u00e0 moi, si l’on peut dire : une petite loggia en bois de 3 m\u00e8tres de large au-dessus du grand hall d’entr\u00e9e, 2 m\u00e8tres de profondeur, sans fen\u00eatre ni chauffage, \u00e0 nouveau cloisonn\u00e9e par des panneaux de contreplaqu\u00e9. Il y avait un matelas parterre et une petite \u00e9tag\u00e8re. De toutes fa\u00e7ons, je passais la plupart de mon temps au centre \u00e0 travailler au bureau. Il m’arrivait souvent de m’\u00e9crouler d’\u00e9puisement sous mon bureau en pleine nuit ou \u00e0 l’aube, non sans avoir braqu\u00e9 un spot sur mon visage pour m’assurer que je ne dorme pas plus que deux heures et que je me rel\u00e8ve pour continuer le travail aussi longtemps que possible. Je m’interroge si un tel niveau de vie et de d\u00e9vouement peut \u00eatre assimil\u00e9 \u00e0 une utilisation illicite de l’argent des dons.<\/p>\n

Oublions la lib\u00e9ration, l’illumination ou la d\u00e9couverte de Dieu ! Ma r\u00e9compense pour avoir consacr\u00e9 toute cette \u00e9nergie, toutes ces ann\u00e9es au service de mon gourou bien-aim\u00e9, en son nom et officiellement mandat\u00e9 par elle, a \u00e9t\u00e9 de devoir me d\u00e9fendre contre les cons\u00e9quences de son manque de r\u00e9flexion et de sa duplicit\u00e9, ainsi que contre les assauts de ses chiens d’attaque juridique. Des ann\u00e9es de recherche spirituelle avaient abouti \u00e0 ma rencontre avec elle, puis plus tard \u00e0 l’enseignement en son nom, fid\u00e9lisant des personnes et \u00e0 la servir au point de transgresser la loi par respect et ob\u00e9issance. Je d\u00e9couvris ensuite que je devais de surcroit porter ses sales secrets pendant au moins trente ans parce que ni elle ni son organisation ne voulaient assumer publiquement la responsabilit\u00e9 des violations commises. Surtout apr\u00e8s avoir \u00e9chou\u00e9 \u00e0 utiliser tous les moyens immoraux, bien que l\u00e9gaux, pour essayer d’en faire porter la responsabilit\u00e9 \u00e0 son repr\u00e9sentant et fid\u00e8le serviteur apparemment sans d\u00e9fense.<\/p>\n

Ce qu’on retiendra de cette histoire parmi d’autres, outre le fait qu’elle et son organisation ne respectent aucune notion de responsabilit\u00e9, est que m\u00eame si vous la servez loyalement pendant des ann\u00e9es, la \u00ab\u00a0m\u00e8re divine\u00a0\u00bb n’h\u00e9sitera pas un seul instant \u00e0 vous jeter sous le bus pour sauver la face. Trente ans plus tard, j’ai tourn\u00e9 la page et je ne me sens pas victime. Mais la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation d’un autre aspect de la corruption au c\u0153ur de cette organisation rappelle \u00e0 quel point cette honteuse mascarade est scandaleuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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MERCI POUR TON SERVICE! Mon parcours de porte-parole d\u00e9vou\u00e9 \u00e0 accus\u00e9 b\u00e2illonn\u00e9 Imaginez avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 l’un des principaux \u00ab\u00a0insiders\u00a0\u00bb de l’organisation d’Amma pendant plus de dix ans, avoir consacr\u00e9 votre vie \u00e0 son service et avoir d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 sa mission sur le continent europ\u00e9en en tant que son repr\u00e9sentant officiel. Imaginez avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 exclu de l’organisation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"rgba(193,219,204,0.71)\" min_height=\"507.9px\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_2,1_2\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_image src=\"https:\/\/theammaempire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/NDA2.jpg\" title_text=\"NDA2\" _builder_version=\"4.27.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" hover_enabled=\"0\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\" sticky_enabled=\"0\"][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.16\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"]\n

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My journey from devoted spokesperson to gagged legal defendant<\/strong><\/h3>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" admin_label=\"section\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_row admin_label=\"row\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" background_size=\"initial\" background_position=\"top_left\" background_repeat=\"repeat\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\" _builder_version=\"4.16\" custom_padding=\"|||\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" custom_padding__hover=\"|||\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"][et_pb_text admin_label=\"Text\" _builder_version=\"4.17.6\" background_size=\"initial\" background_position=\"top_left\" background_repeat=\"repeat\" global_colors_info=\"{}\" theme_builder_area=\"et_body_layout\"]\n
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\n\nImagine having been one of the key insiders of Amma\u2019s organisation for over a decade, having dedicated your life to her service and to have developed her mission on the European continent as her official representative. Imagine having been necked out of the organisation for daring to want to be honest and transparent about your path and life choices. And shortly after that, to receive her lawyer's notice accusing you of crimes you would never have dreamt of committing. Imagine then to be forced to sign an agreement and gagged into silence for thirty whole years in order to be left in peace.\n\nWell, that is what happened to me in 1994 and now that I am no longer legally bound by the gag, compelled to hold my silence about the injustice, I feel it is right to share the truth. Out of the blue, I was accused by my guru's lawyers of breach of trust, embezzlement and misappropriation of donations. I was in a state of shock and the only way out of this predicament, was to hire a lawyer to protect myself from the wrath of the one I had loved more than my own life. The \"Californian\" legal attack dogs would not let down until I agreed to sign a judicial transaction in \"France\" with the \"Indian\" main branch of the MA organisation. Luckily, before I left India in 1984 to serve the guru in Europe, I had had the presence of mind to request an official power of attorney \u2013 a robust protection, in case of need. Who would have dreamt it becoming a key element of protection from the attacks of my own guru? Ten years later, the condition for a discharge from my power of attorney mandate was the submission and approval of bookkeeping for the entire period. Even though I had not been requested to keep accounts at any time, fortunately, once again I had the presence of mind to scrupulously keep every bill and cash receipt, just in case. Without those, I would have been doomed. I then spent seven whole months doing nothing but retroactive accounting covering the 10-year span of activities in the guru's name. During the same period, after numerous transactions, when the lawyers realised that the way I had conducted activities had been done out of respect and obedience to the guru's behests, and as such, also her responsibility, and they could not succeed in their accusations, they agreed to settle the issue. The accounting was approved and the legal transaction could finally be signed. But!, of course there was a but... it was that minimum 30-year non-disclosure clause. Whatever I believed and felt, I had no choice but to comply, otherwise there would have been no end to tribulations linked to this litigation based on false accusations. We signed on 29th<\/span>\u00a0of July 1994. I was at the same time deeply relieved and distraught.<\/span>\n\nWhat was in that agreement that had to remain so secret? What was the clause about? What were they trying to hide? In the first place, I was being gagged about the very existence of the transaction. Beyond that, specifically, it was about the transfer to the newly formed legal non-profit entity of remaining donation money in bank accounts and property of the centre.<\/span>\n\nEmotions had to subside and I needed time to understand. Because, all these years, I had just obeyed the guru and tried to make things right with the freedom that remained. I later understood it was about hiding the fact that the wrongdoings and transgressions they had unsuccessfully tried to make me shoulder during this shameless litigation, attempting to drown me financially, socially and silence me forever, were in fact based on plain obedience to the guru's behests. But abuse and malpractices were not foreign to this organisation. Even a cursory look at my book, <\/span>\"The Amma Empire\"<\/em>, will reveal a never-ending list of them. Peculiar for a spiritual and religious organisation pretending to uphold high moral and spiritual values. Values such as respect, love and service of humankind, for which tens of millions of dollars in donations were collected every year already thirty years ago.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nWhat made this situation even more egregious was that the guru had me falsely accused by her lawyers, \"after\" having thrown me out of the organisation, because I refused to be another clerical lie: a teaching senior monk and sole European representative with a hidden sentimental and sexual life on the side. Indeed, I felt that abandoning the robes and returning to lay life was an evolution, not a regression, as it implied rigorous proof and integration of values and spiritual achievements in the world and a move closer to the people. I did not dream of leaving the fold or abandoning my sacerdotal duties. But that did not fit in the guru's concept of things.<\/span>\n\nTo make matters even worse, all this happened after twenty years of absence from the Government radar in France. So, there I was without any personal resources, unable to claim social services or officially seek employment and earn a living. My name had already been sullied by the guru and her disciples and my network destroyed with their lies. So, I had nowhere to go and could turn to no one. Those who read my book will remember how the mother of compassion, when necking me out, requested me initially to go live in any country where she was unknown. She refused my honesty and felt that being a humble and honest dude was not a good idea. It was much better to be a VIP fraud. Keeping up appearances was paramount.<\/span>\n\nSo, what was the deal? In a nutshell, the organisation's activities were on the rise in Europe, and during her programs an ever-growing amount of donations were collected. Particularly in France, where many bank cheques were given by devotees, such cheques had to be deposited in accounts before being forwarded to India as a lumpsum. In the various countries where the organisation was active and programmes were taking place, that is in the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland, (in Italy the organisation was different), I had approached legal experts and consultants and made plans for setting up legal non-profit entities with their respective bank accounts to receive and transfer what had become amounts with up to six digits. But, as described in detail in the book, every time I came to her with proposals of legitimising her activities locally, she flatly refused. She insisted that everything, including the accounts in which donation and sales' money were received, should be held in my personal name. Later, this even included the first property of the MA Centre in Europe. For whatever reason, she insisted the title be held in my personal name too.<\/span>\n\nYou should have seen the expressions of the bank tellers when I appeared with a rucksack and stashes of cheques which had to be individually countersigned and dated, sometimes for a couple of hours, in their presence. Naturally bank managers were alerted and I came under scrutiny as to the source of all these funds. When they heard my answers as to what the origin of the money was and as to why it all had to be on my \"private\" accounts they always looked dubious. They obviously suspected me of dealing drugs or any similar illegal activity. I was met with numerous vested warnings to inform the fiscal and social authorities. But I continued unperturbed, anchored in my faith and in my desire to work for the greater good by way of my beloved guru.<\/span>\n\nThe faith of many were challenged through this reckless and disrespectful attitude of Amma\u2019s. For example, the devotee who sold her personal home and donated all the proceeds from the bottom of her heart for the purchase of a Centre in France was shocked when she realised that it had to be donated to me, as a private individual. Due to the guru's negligence, I risked being prosecuted in these countries, particularly in France where some of the possible charges that could have been levelled against me were not bound by statute of limitations. Administrations were starting to ask questions, like the Administration for Social Contributions and Benefits in France who was looking upon the regular work done by selfless devotee workers in the new centre as unpaid and undeclared labour. Since there was no legal entity, I was considered the unscrupulous employer. That was a serious offence.<\/span>\n\nSo, in the name of the guru refusing to abide by any rule, the Californian lawyers accused me of embezzlement, breach of trust and misappropriation of donations for my personal use. In reality, I had nothing that was mine, except a car, with which I travelled 10,000 kms a month to give <\/span>satsangs<\/em> in various places in Europe \u2013 car of which I was reimbursing the credit with my earnings from independent lectures and workshops, when the guru herself had told me I should stop running activities on a voluntary basis.\u00a0At first in 1984, I squatted in an 8 sqm maid's room in the non-insulated attic of an old apartment house, without bathroom and heating. Then I squatted for many years in the loggia of a sports hall without proper bathroom facilities. I was sleeping on that concrete floor, my head literally just a few meters away from major railway lines in Paris. I had fitted plywood panels to close it off and create a somewhat private space. Only since the centre had been purchased in a mountainous region of France, did I have a \"room\" of my own, if one can call it that: a small wooden loggia spun 3 meters across and above the tall entrance hall, 2 meters deep, without window and without heating, again walled-off by some plywood. There was a mattress on the floor and a small shelf. Most of my time in the centre was spent working in the office anyway. I often sank to the floor under my desk in exhaustion in the dead of night or in the wee hours of the morning, not without directing a spotlight close to my face so that I wouldn't sleep longer than a couple of hours and get up again to continue working for as long as I could manage.\u00a0Not certain how such a standard of living and dedication equated to the misuse of donation money.<\/span>\n\nForget liberation, enlightenment or finding God! My reward for having dedicated all this energy, all these years in the service of my beloved guru, in her name and officially mandated by her, was having to defend myself from the consequences of her thoughtlessness and duplicity, as from the onslaught of her legal attack dogs. Years of spiritual search had culminated into my encounter with her, then later teaching in her name, taking people into the fold, and serving her to the point of transgressing the law out of respect and obedience. Only to find out I had to carry her dirty secrets for a minimum of thirty years because neither she nor her organisation wanted to take public responsibility for the violations committed. Especially after failing to utilise every immoral, albeit judicial, means to try to shove them onto her seemingly helpless representative and faithful servant.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nThe message here, apart from the fact that she and her organisation bear zero accountability, is that even if you serve her loyally for years, the \"divine mother\" will not hesitate to throw you under the bus to save face. Thirty years later, I have long moved on and do not feel a victim. 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