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here were days when peoplequeued up in front of herhouse to catch a glimpse of her. The vernacular presshailed her. But she decided to callits quits. Amudha, or ‘Aavi’ Amudha asshe is popularly known, is nomore a ‘medium’ now. For thoseof you who don’t know, a ‘medi-um’ is a person through whomthe spirits of the dead are sup-posed to contact the living. And Amudha was one such medi-um, which she says was aGod-given gift. “In 1993,during my highschool, Ibe-came a medium and with thatpower I have communicated withmore than 500 spirits. My Guru(in a metaphysical state) helpedme talk to spirits.”
Issues with the dead
Most of the people who cameto Amudha wanted to settle prop-erty issues with their dead rela-tives, she says. “They wanted toknow whether the dead soulsare happy and if they neededanything for ‘athma shanti’.There were also cases wherethey asked about money orproperty matters. So far, thespirits have not harmed meand I think it’s because of my Guru, who is my guiding soul.”But certain problems couldnot be solved, says Amudha, andthat’s when she stopped being amedium.
Kriya calling
“I changed my journey and de-veloped a passion for under-standing my own self – me, themind and the truth beyond themind. These things made peoplecall me a spiritualist,” says Amud-ha, who recently released a book called
Ennai Naan Theadugiraen
(In Search of Myself).Then she chose the path of ‘Kri- ya’ and changed her prefix toSangamithra from Aavi. “‘Aavi’,meaning ‘spirit’, had negativity connected to it, so I changed it to‘Sangamithra’, meaning friend.” Amudha now runs SanmargaFoundation, where she teachesKriya techniques to students andprofessionals. “Kriya means ac-tivation of mind. The techniqueinvolves activating the mind tointrospect and identify one’sgoodness while simultaneously removing negative thoughts.”The practitioner provides stu-dents a diary to note down eve-rything that happens in his or herlife. She also teaches some code words, so that others will not de-cipher what one has written.“When you start writing and in-trospecting, you can experience asea change. I am doing this insome schools and a few IT com-panies. On March 30, I am alsostarting this mind exercise for theinmates of Puzhal Prison,” says Amudha, adding that it was for-mer President of India A.P.J. Ab-dul Kalam who asked her to teachKriya to children.
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V. HARIPRIYA
haripriya@goergo.in
‘Aavi’
Amudha is back
ERGO
Monday,March30,2009
NAMMA CHENNAI
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Shirt fad
A leading cinema public relationsexecutive seems to have developed anobsession for shirts. At a recent filmlaunch event, the lead actor came in awhite-and-blue shirt, while the PR manchanged three different shirts in amatter of 60 minutes.
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Khakis, both senior and junior, are quickto shy away when the words ‘High Court’are pronounced. Recently, a top cop washeard saying “I don’t want to sayanything positive or negative” whenasked about the court issue.
Cold war turns heated
There has always been an ego issuebetween the Railway employees andstate police posted in Chennai Centralstation. Recently, the cold war turned toverbal abuse heaped on each otherfollowing the discovery of anunidentified dead body on a platform.The fight sparked after there was a delayby a senior railway official in issuing acertificate for the state police to clearthe body.
Not as a ‘medium’ but as Kriya practitioner and with a new name – ‘Sangamithra’ Amudha
PHOTO: S.S. KUMAR
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