Cartwheels In a Sari - Growing up Cult (A brief Review)

I just finished reading Cartwheels in a Sari: A Memoir of Growing Up Cult by Jayanti Tamm.

There were some differences with Jayanti’s story and mine. Her guru was alive, and mine was dead. But it does not matter if a guru is dead or alive. If the guru is not around to direct you, his disciples are willing and ready. She was born into the cult, "a divine birth," and I joined (though was told I was chosen to join). Like my guru, hers had a cavalcade of movie stars and famous followers, which were name dropped to further the proof that the guru was legitimate.

Like my guru, his followers believed their guru was special, the only guru in the world with the “truth.”

Like me, the only way out of her cult religion was through her own realization that her guru was a fake.

No one can be talked out of these cults, as she realized when she left--you go it alone.

Even if you were not involved in an eastern religion cult, the story is riveting. You’ll come to understand the isolation, the control, and the spiritual damage these guru’s do to their followers and how there is nothing you can say to sway them away.