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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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Royal Commission: Threat to kill Satyananda ashram whistleblower Shishy