Amritanadamayi Math had received Intelligence alert

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Amritanadamayi Math had received Intelligence alert

Tuesday August 23 2005 00:00 IST

 

>From the Kerala page of www.newindpress.com (the

exact url is half a mile long, and the @#%$^(* java

script on this site may crash your browser!)

 

 

KOLLAM: Mata Amritanandamayi said on Monday that three

weeks ago she had been informed of an Intelligence

report about the possibility of an attack on her.

 

Mata told newsmen at the Amritanandamayi Math at

Vallikkavu that though the Swamis had informed her of

the Intelligence report, it was not taken seriously.

She said that the Math authorities would not seek more

security in the light of the untoward incident at the

Math on Sunday.

 

Mata said that she was not afraid to lay down her life

while performing Karma. Saying that many of her

devotees had collapsed after hearing the news of the

attempt to attack her, she appealed to the devotees

not to get panicky.

 

Mata said that she had survived an attempt on her life

by an inebriated man seven years ago. Narrating the

Sunday incident, Mata said that had the Swamis failed

to pacify the devotees many deaths would have occurred

in the stampede at the bhajan hall.

 

‘‘I pardoned the attacker in my court,’’ she said.

 

The Math has in a press release denied reports

appearing in a section of the media that the attacker,

Pavithran, was an inmate or a regular visitor to the

Ashram. The inmates and regular Ashram devotees have

never seen this person inside the Ashram premises. He

appeared to be perfectly sane. At the time of being

restrained, he was shouting that he had not

accomplished the purpose for which he had come. The

Math suspects some ulterior motive behind the attack.

 

Math vice-president Swami Amritaswaroopanandapuri said

that those who were present at the Math had not

manhandled the culprit as Amma told the devotees to

remain quiet. The culprit was handed over to the

police.

 

Pavithran’s father Madhavan said that his son had been

a devotee of Mata Amritanandamayi for the last 18

years and he used to visit the Math and stay there

regularly.

 

Madhavan said that Pavithran had been undergoing

treatment for mental disorder for the past 15 years at

Changanassery in Kottayam district.

 

Meanwhile, Karunagappally judicial first class

magistrate court on Monday remanded Pavithran in

judicial custody for 14 days.

 

[note the apparent discrepancy...the MA Math says the

would-be assassin Pavithran was never a resident at

the ashram or known to anyone there, while Pavithran's

father says he used to stay there regularly.]

 

 

Keval