AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The Indian headquarters of the Satyananda yoga movement expressed its disgust and threatened to withdraw all support for its Australian ashrams after one of the communities was investigated over sex scandals.
In an angry email to the Mangrove Mountain Ashram in October the Munger ashram in India said that Australia was ‘willing and happy to hide behind the guru’s dhoti’ and suffer the ‘swamiji says’ syndrome.’
The email is understood to reflect the position of Swami Niranjan, the world leader of the movement.
It threatened to withdraw all support from Satyananda ashrams in Australia unless a full account, an apology and a new system was put in place.
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