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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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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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The former "handmaiden" of a yoga master has apologised for her violent treatment of children.

The "handmaiden" of a sexually abusive yoga master had sex with a 14-year-old boy only because her guru ordered her to, an inquiry has heard.

The woman, known as Shishy, was the handmaiden, sexual partner and second-in-charge of Swami Akhandananda at the Satyananda Yoga Ashram on NSW's Central Coast during the 1970s and 1980s.

Shishy told the child abuse royal commission on Friday that starting a sexual relationship with the boy, codenamed APQ, when she was 25 was "the most shameful thing in my life".

She said she was instructed by Akhandananda to start initiating the boy the same way the guru had been having sex with under-age girls on the ashram.

"It's one of the things I really resent Akhandananda for," Shishy said.

However, the commission heard Shishy continued a sexual relationship with the boy after she left the ashram in 1985.

The pair later had a child together and the boy lived in her house.

Under questioning, Shishy, now in her 50s, said she did not want to start the relationship with APQ and did so only on Akhandananda's orders.

But in 1989, after doing a "mind mash program", she realised she was in love with him.

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In scenes reminiscent of Godman Rampals ashram, heavy police was deployed outside an ashram in Nurmahal in Punjabs Jalandhar district as followers of godman Ashutosh Maharaj are refusing to cremate him.

Around 600 of the godmans followers are standing guard outside the dera of Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan protecting their leader, who they claim is not dead but meditating in the freezer. He has been in such a condition for the past 306 days.

On January 29 this year, doctors had said that Maharaj was clinically dead. His followers have since then not allowed anyone to inspect the body, which is kept in the freezer at the ashram.

A dera spokesperson said they would appeal against the high courts order this week to cremate the body within 15 days.

The police have reported that there has been an increase of followers at the ashram and that they are planning how best to implement the high courts order to cremate the body within 15 days without a repeat of the violence that took place at the Rampal ashram in Haryana.

They reported that on Tuesday, the DJJS followers had put up two barricades and would not allow outsiders to enter the dera premises.A watchtower had also been built and CCTV cameras installed.

Rampal's followers had clashed with the police, which had to storm the 12-acre ashram to arrest the controversial guru. Five women and an infant died during the stand off.

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