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Sant Shri Asaram Bapu ji Amritvani 6th December 2014
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Sekhar biswas sanekpur ashram para
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The Royal Commission has heard that a whistleblower ''would be best dead''.

A former senior member of a yoga ashram at the centre of a sex abuse inquiry said the leader of the movement plotted to kill her because she wanted to go public with allegations of abuse.

The woman, given the name Shishy, was second in charge at the Satyananda Yoga Ashram at Mangrove Mountain on the NSW central coast in the 1970s and 80s.

In her statement, tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, she said she went to India to alert the movement's leader, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, of the abuse.

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According to her statement, he and the movement's current leader Swami Niranjan Saraswati discussed disposing of her.

"They discussed what a great danger to the organisation I was - that I was trouble, and that, 'it would be best if she ended up floating downriver on the Ganga (Ganges River)'," her statement read.

"I took that to mean I would be best dead."

The commission heard Shishy took the sex abuse claims about the Mangrove Mountain ashram's leader, Swami Akhandananda, to the NSW police and later learned he was trying to arrange her to be killed.

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A woman has told an inquiry that she was sexually assaulted with a double-barrelled shotgun at a New South Wales Central Coast yoga ashram, and was not sure the man who did it would not pull the trigger.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse made against the former spiritual leader and director of the Satyananda Yoga Ashram in New South Wales, Swami Akhandananda Saraswati, in the 1970s and 80s.

The 57-year-old woman known as Shishy cared for children who were separated from their parents at the ashram where family relationships were broken down.

Shishy met Akhandananda when she was 16 and he was aged about 22. She was initiated at the age of 19 to a full swami and went to live at the Central Coast ashram, sleeping in the same quarters as Akhandananda.

The commission has heard that Akhandananda's behaviour towards her became increasingly threatening as the years passed, and he began cutting at her vagina with nail scissors and threatening her with a pocket knife.

He also used the pocket knife to cut out her moles, at times leaving deep wounds.

"He wouldn't allow me to get medical attention so I sewed those two [cuts] up with fishing wire," she said.

Shishy said she was "terrified" when Akhandananda sexually assaulted her with a double-barrelled shotgun, in the lead up to her fleeing the ashram in 1984.

"I felt like if I moved or did anything other than receive it that I wasn't 100 per cent sure that he wouldn't fully pull the trigger," she said.

Shishy has told the inquiry that she did not procure girls for sex at the yoga ashram but was present when two young girls were sexually assaulted.

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Child abuse royal commission: Woman assaulted with double-barrelled shotgun at Satyananda Yoga Ashram, inquiry hears

A woman has told an inquiry that she was sexually assaulted with a double-barrelled shotgun at a New South Wales Central Coast yoga ashram, and was not sure the man who did it would not pull the trigger.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is investigating allegations of sexual and physical abuse made against the former spiritual leader and director of the Satyananda Yoga Ashram in New South Wales, Swami Akhandananda Saraswati, in the 1970s and 80s.

The 57-year-old woman known as Shishy cared for children who were separated from their parents at the ashram where family relationships were broken down.

Shishy met Akhandananda when she was 16 and he was aged about 22. She was initiated at the age of 19 to a full swami and went to live at the Central Coast ashram, sleeping in the same quarters as Akhandananda.

The commission has heard that Akhandananda's behaviour towards her became increasingly threatening as the years passed, and he began cutting at her vagina with nail scissors and threatening her with a pocket knife.

He also used the pocket knife to cut out her moles, at times leaving deep wounds.

"He wouldn't allow me to get medical attention so I sewed those two [cuts] up with fishing wire," she said.

Shishy said she was "terrified" when Akhandananda sexually assaulted her with a double-barrelled shotgun, in the lead up to her fleeing the ashram in 1984.

"I felt like if I moved or did anything other than receive it that I wasn't 100 per cent sure that he wouldn't fully pull the trigger," she said.

Shishy has told the inquiry that she did not procure girls for sex at the yoga ashram but was present when two young girls were sexually assaulted.

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Buddhism Karma Stories 17 - Two Children
A Buddhism karma story describes the relationship of two old men and two children.

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12-02-14 "Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions" at Dharma Friendship Foundation
Exploring how the life of the Buddha is understood in the Sanskrit and Pali traditions, and the similarities and differences between the core teachings in the different canons.

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New Delhi's President Pranab Mukherjee releasing postal stamp commemorating Anagarika Dharmapala in October 2014

The fundamental flaw in Arundhatis article is confining the origins of caste exclusively to Brahmanic Hinduism. She also confuses Varna that was theoretically constructed from the Brahmin point of view, especially applied on to them by themselves and imposed on others, with Jaathi, which had altogether different origins. English has only one word, caste, for both.

From time to time there were revolts in South Asia against such oppressive religious constructs and the foremost of them could be seen in the Tamil Bakti movement, in which a woman Kaaraikkaal Ammai, a hunter Kannappan or a Paraiyan Nanthan were shown as attaining salvation straightaway through devotion, defying norms of Brahmanism, Buddhism or Jainism. It later inspired the rest of India but compromising elite oppression was always reconfirming itself.

Arundhati speaks of Dalit Sikhs, Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians, noting that conversion has not changed the status. But, if she wants to talk about Sri Lanka then there exist Dalit Sinhala-Buddhists too. [Dalit is of course a Marathi word, meaning broken people. But it is a word of Dravidian etymology and it has to be. The word, by D/ N interchange, is a cognate of Nalintha or Nalivu, meaning ruin, destruction, affliction, distress etc., in Dravidian.]

However, these are relatively minor issues in getting the thrust of Arundhatis article, Indias Shame written on 13 November and published in the December issue of Prospect Magazine.

Tamils have to read it carefully and absorbingly in understanding the inner mechanism and larger dimensions of the New Delhi-Colombo partnership and the role of Indias leading media houses in the genocide of Eezham Tamils, in the on-going genocide, and in the destruction of Eezham Tamil militancy that sought a new construction in South Asia, achieving something against caste and gender oppression besides ethnic oppression.

Unfortunately, intellectuals in India were blinded from seeing the dimensions when the unprecedented genocide in South Asia was taking place in the island.

C.V. Wigneswaran at World Hindu Conference

A diaspora delegate who attended the conference cited a fellow delegate from Colombo telling him that Buddhism is not a threat to Tamils but Islam and Christianity are worse threats. This is a typical talk that always originates from certain Colombo-centric sections envisaging reconciliation and partnership of traditional elite in the pursuit of material gains and domination. New Delhi Hindutva also thinks in the same way and it is prepared to export a new religion to suit the purpose. A small example is the Gitopadesha panel seen in the renovated hall of the Wesleyan Jaffna Central College, where the Indian consulate in Jaffna held an education marketing meeting recently.

Our forefathers had worked hard to preserve the Hindu society in the face of successive assaults by Portuguese, Dutch and English colonizers, who wielded their religions as weapons against the Hindus, Wigneswaran said at the conference.

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December 7, 2014|10:37 am

In 73 years (I was born December 5, 1941, two days before Pearl Harbor) I have never seen the world situation more volatile.

The Pearl Harbor attack is loaded with personal as well as geopolitical lessons. To learn them is to make oneself less vulnerable to the adversary's surprise attacks. Here are a few:

1The spiritual is everything.

As discussed in Part 1, Pre-Pearl Harbor Japanese culture was a blending (syncretism) of the Samurai spirit made sacred through Shintoism and the Zen Buddhism of that period. However, all cultures even atheistic ones ultimately arise from and try to sustain themselves through mystical spirituality.

Marxism embraced the Hegelian idea that history was being guided to the "paradise" of pure Communism. Mao and his Red Book became the spirituality of the destructive Red Guard Movement in the late 1960s. Crowds lined up in bitter cold to see the embalmed remains of their gods Lenin and (for a while) Stalin in Red Square. North Koreans pray to the founder of their atheistic state, sanction marriages, and lay flowers at the base of his statues. Goebbels dressed Hitler rallies in mystical spectacle.

Even professed Christians are sometimes guilty. Some pastors in the American slavery era tried to get biblical sanction for the hideous institution that saw fellow human beings made in the image of God as chattel.

Sociologists Pitirim Sorokin and Samuel Huntington, as well as historians like Will Durant, David Aikman, and even Edward Gibbon (in a back-handed way) have demonstrated the primacy of the spiritual in the development and behaviors of civilizations.

The Bible, however, gives us not mere theory, but literal truth, when it says, in Ephesians 6:12, "We are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places..." (NLT)

The ultimate enemy in the Second World War was not the Japanese Samurai warriors or the German Nazis, and is not now Islamic terrorists, would-be global tyrants, young black men, white policemen, illegal immigrants, Barack Obama, House Republicans, or any other individuals or groups varying partisans see as villainous.

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