They threatened to kill me if I did not leave Thiruvarur
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“During my stay at the Thiruvarur Aadheenam, I faced constant threats from Swami Atmananda, the fraud Sanyasi under pressure of the local Hindu extremist groups, who donated the temple to us, along with his associates. Several times, they forced their way into the temple and threatened to kill the inhabitants and destroy temple property. Their message was clear: get out or be killed. No one had ever threatened my life before, and I was scared for myself and my family.
Another group that I had to contend with was a family of land-grabbers, auditor Selvaraj, his 2 sons, Deelipan and Prabhakar, and his wife Kalaichelvi, who were illegally occupying part of the temple property, were aiming to completely take over the entire temple complex. They were already employing criminal intimidation, life threats, open insults and hurting religious sentiments of the Sanyasis and disciples of Swamiji, over the earlier few weeks.
All the brutal attackers were weapons in the hands of Atmananda Swami and Jnaneshwara (Swami Atmananda’s disciple) who collaborated with them to cheat and grab and forcefully vacate legal landowners by sending assassins to threaten our lives and take control of our property.
With death threats flying in every day, each day it was getting more and more difficult to maintain peace at the aadheenam.