Jayanti Tamm



From the time of her birth, Jayanti tamm was declared the chose disciple in the
cult of Guru sri Chinmoy.

Jayanti lived inside the confines ot the Guru's inner circle, shuttling between
her family's home, Sri Chinmoy's Connecticut headquarters, and his ashramm
in Queens, New York. 

Sri Chinmoy assigned Jayanti to court celebrities, infiltrate the United Nations, and find
elephants for him to weight lift, all in an effort to transform the world.

At the age of twenty-five, after multiple attemps to leave, she was permanently exiled
from the group. 

JAYANTI TAMM is an English professor at Ocean County College in New Jersey.
She will be speaking and presenting her newly released memoir on Wednesday,
June 17 at 7:00 PM.

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