Kanchi Mutt-- a bombshell?

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Friday, December 10, 2004 7:56 AM

ReKanchi Mutt-- a bombshell?

 

 

The fact that the TN police queried columnist Gurumurthy only

to complain about the columns he wrote about the case suggests that

they are getting desperate. The following article from the Tamil

weekly, if true, could complicate things for the police.

 

NSR

 

 

Vikatan Article dated 12-12-2004

http://www.vikatan.com/jv/2004/dec/12122004/jv0201.asp

 

Sudden Letter: "In 10 days, the situation will change."

 

Tuesday, December 7. Around 10:30 am, a man about 35 years of age

came to our office and handed an envelope to the office

receptionist, immediately turned around and vanished.

 

When we read the letter, our reaction was surprise, shock and

confusion. This letter was appeared to be written by contractor

Ravi

Subramaniam, for whom the police is searching in connection with

the

murder of Sankarraman.

 

Was it really Ravi Subramaniam? From where did he send it? We don't

have any answers for these questions. We are publishing this letter

as it is in full for our readers without having confirmed the

veracity of what Ravi Subramanian has said on his behalf:

 

"Respected Junior Vikatan Editor:

 

My name is Ravi Subramaniam. You must have known about me quite

well. The police are searching for me in a case with which I have

no

connection. I was minding my contract business but police have made

false accusations against me and are hunting me.

 

I have lots of things to say. But if I say them to the police, it

may not have any impact. I want to clear up for you all the false

accusations the police are spreading in the press about me. I

respectfully request you to take this to the people.

 

The contract business had been in my family for generations. Only

after I became successful did I start on the path of bhakthi. I

went

to several maths all over India - I respected the social service

being performed by the maths. In the same way out of admiration for

their social service, I became a devotee of the Kanchi Math too.

 

Even though Jayendra Swamigal was in an exalted peetham and a

sanyasi, the way he used to mingle freely with ordinary people

without aloofness, the way he would express opinions, freely

without

any hesitation - all this increased my admiration for him. I

considered him a human devata. I started attending his functions.

Throughout the world, Jayendra Swamigal has thousands of devotees

like me. But nowadays, if you follow a madaadipathi of your choice,

the police consider it a crime.

 

I saw stories in the newspapers claiming that I introduced women to

the Kanchi Math. This is too horrible for even God to bear!

 

God does not distinguish between male devotees and female devotees.

For god, there can only be devotees.

 

Whenever I started any new business project, I would bring the plan

to the Math for blessing before I started work on it. Only in this

way, have I taken some of my friends to the Math. In connection

with

my trade, there have also been some businesswomen whom I know

professionally.

 

In all this, I have never met Jayendra Swamigal alone to get the

blessing. I stood in line with the rest of the public to get his

blessing. This is how Jayendra Swamigal likes it.

 

Other than that - the stories police are shamelessly spreading in

the press about my having taken actresses to the Math and left them

there - are all a monstrous lie. I am not that type of person. The

Math also won't condone such acts. If anybody does such things out

of over-eagerness, the Math will scold them. The present accounts

linking actresses to the math are a police conspiracy.

 

Police make it sound as if I introduced Appu to Jayendra Swamigal.

Appu is an aasthika. He got there himself. Their description of him

as a dada can only be accepted to a certain extent. A North Chennai

Congress Party member who is close to Appu told me that all the big-

shots in society use him for their selfish ends and afterwards land

him in trouble. I know details about Appu only through this person.

I have seen him a few times in the Mutt also.

 

I want to say something else. Some police officers and some senior

AIADMK have also come to the Math with Appu and the people in the

Math know this too.

 

I want to relate some details about other ways Appu got involved

with the Math. Recently, Appu has helped a number of temples:

Melmaruvathur Aadi Parashakthi temple, Samayapuram Maariamman

Temple, a Pondy Ashram, an Amman temple next to Madurai -- like

this, there are many temples where he has given donation. In the

same way, I think he might have helped charities related to the

Sankaramatam also. Police are trying to show as though anybody who

likes the Math is a criminal. The same way, Chief Minister

Jayalalitha has also given so much help to the Math. What would

they

say about her?

 

Truth be told, in this case, the police are being duplicitous. I

wonder whether even the investigating officers know why they are

conducting this enquiry with such ferocity.

 

As for Auditor Radhakrishnan and Thirukotiyur Madhavan, these two

are not good people. Many do not know the other face of these two.

They do vengeful acts. They have no respect for religion.

 

Now that he is putting on a goody-goody act, will the police look

into whether [Auditor Radhakrishnan] has 5-6 crores? If they

enquire

into how he amassed so much wealth, many facts will come out. He

thinks the crooked things he has done, for which he used to use the

Math's name in high places, will not come out. We can bring out

everything.

 

While at the Math, Radhakrishnan played with finances in a big way.

When they came to Swamigal's attention, after he had confirmed

through various means that Radhakrishnan was guilty, he gave him a

big scolding and, rightfully, for his own welfare, told him: `Don't

do crimes against God'.

 

Even after that, Radhakrishnan used the Math's name to do more

crookedness, and this, some people know full well. Only after this

was he dismissed from the Math and told not to come near there. At

that time, he went to see Periyaswami [ie JS] and Chinnaswami [VS]

and he vowed : `I'm going to see to it that you pay for this.' -

this, many people know.

 

As long as he was in the Math, many people who were harmed by him

did not touch him. After he left the Math, his enemies have taken

him aside and threatened him from time to time.

 

All these are to a point open knowledge. It appears there is no

connection between the Math and Radhakrishnan's assault.

 

As for Thirukottiyur Madhavan, he is an enemy of Hindus. As the

puppet of a number of wealthy people, he was blindly opposing

Jayendra Swamigal. In temple matters, Madhavan had conflicts with

others about how things should be done there. If someone came to

ask

for an auspicious time for some good undertaking, he would also

interfere and give a conflicting opinion. Like this, in business

also, he had enmities. For that, someone might have beaten him up.

 

But now, all the blame is being heaped on the Math. Whatever

accusations they throw, the Math has the strength to bear it. With

the blessings of the ancestors and of past good deeds, nobody can

do

any harm to the Math.

 

If Jayendra Swamigal did not have truth on his side, why would

Kathiravan change his testimony? He himself has said in open court

that his first statement was because of police torture.

 

Only now have I seen Kathiravan, Chinna and the rest of the accused

in the papers. Police are giving me a leading role in the drama

they

are enacting to entangle Jayendra Swamigal in a big way. Let me

specifically and emphatically tell you this much: They are just

concocting the case.

 

You have to take another thing to the people. Some months ago,

Jayendra Swami and people close to certain politicians had a

difference of opinion regarding the appointment of an auditor for

the Math. You can enquire into whether this is true or not. These

few people were insisting that someone close to AIADMK should be

appointed to oversee Math accounts. But the Math declined this as

unnecessary. This is one thing I know of that may be the reason for

anger against Jayendra Swami.

 

Besides this, there are important politicians who have been

compelled to take action against Jayendra Swami for political

reasons.

 

Also, the politicians putting Jayendra Swami in this suffocating

position are demeaning their own Hindu-dharm. The leaders of other

religions condemn Jayendra Swamigal's arrest, but these leaders are

derogatorily crowing over it. This can only be said to be a treason

against Hindu religion.

 

Another thing, I saw in the papers that police are saying I am

going

about Delhi disguised as a Sardar. I have to laugh. I am not in any

disguise. I am only myself. Police are spreading rumors about me,

my

family and my personal life. The people who are close to me know

what I am like and how my family is. I even saw in the press that

my

family is angry that I am associated with the Math. If someone goes

to the temple, will their family ask "Why are you going there?"

Even

if you tell a lie, it should make some sense!

 

Finally, it is my wish to surrender myself. But I feel in my heart

that my life will be in danger at the hands of the police. I am

getting word from some AIADMK higher-ups that they will shoot me

and, like always, make up a story that I was trying to escape and

finish the case very easily. That is why, mourning my destiny, I am

in hiding.

 

I can definitely say that in another 10 days, the whole situation

will change. There is going to be an important turn in

Sankarraman's

case. I think it's enough if I come out then. If the police had

conducted their case openly without bias, I wouldn't have gone into

hiding even now. Whatever I know I would have told them. Whatever I

am telling you now, I would have unhesitatingly told the police.

But they are proceeding with a master plan which goes beyond even

this murder case. They are spreading news that I am in their

custody

in a way that even my family would believe it - there is some

cunning behind this.

 

Editor Sir, I have told you what is on my mind. As to the truth of

this, God is the witness.

 

Respectful Greetings,

 

Ravi Subramaniam.

 

 

 

 

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