Indian court asked to rule on whether Hindu guru dead or meditating

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 28 May 2014 | Dean Nelson, New Delhi

[BenLurkin]

The family and followers of one of India's wealthiest Hindu spiritual leaders are fighting a legal battle over whether he is dead or simply in a deep state of meditation.

...Shri Ashutosh Maharaj, the founder of the Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan religious order with a property estate worth an estimated £100 million, died in January, according to his wife and son.

However, his disciples at his Ashram have refused to let the family take his body for cremation because they claim he is still alive.

According to his followers, based in the Punjab city of Jalandhar, he simply went into a deep Samadhi or meditation and they have frozen his body to preserve it for when he wakes from it.

His body is currently contained in a commercial freezer at their Ashram.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Perhaps he’s just pining.

He's not pining, he's passed on. < /Cleese>

[pax_et_bonum]

Giving them the cold shoulder?

[Candor7]

Google “mahasamadhi”. The vocabulary on this threat is uninformed and more than slightly sophomoric.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This Guru is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t put him in the freezer ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘His metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!!He’s snuffed it!..... THIS IS AN EX-Guru!

[BenLurkin]

Interesting. When they return from mahasamadhi, what do they say they’ve seen?

[kaehurowing]

Beautiful plumage.

[Heart-Rest]

He has moved beyond meditating to dessicating.

[Slings and Arrows]

Sssh! The Maestro is (de)composing!

[Drew68]

Does he smell really really Bad? I mean worse than he normally smelled walking around.

This probably explains why they put him in the freezer.

[eldoradude]

Shouldn't they have freeze-dried him?

Just add water - voylah - instant guru.

[wonkowasright]

According to his followers, based in the Punjab city of Jalandhar, he simply went into a deep Samadhi or meditation and they have frozen his body to preserve it for when he wakes from it.

Well if he wasn't dead before the freezer incident.........

[RichInOC]

“’E’s pinin’ for Nirvana, Sir.”

[Kenny Bunk]

Indian court asked to rule on whether Hindu guru dead or meditating

During the election of 2012, I asked this court for the same ruling on Mitt Romney. No answer yet. We also tried lighting a fire under him, but that Mormon underwear must be made of Nomex.

[Slings and Arrows]

“Beautiful guru, the Mumbai Blue. Lovely plumage.”

[Kenny Bunk]

You’re not trying to curry favour with our Indian FReepers, are you?

[L,TOWM]

I see what you did there...

[shibumi]

"You’re not trying to curry favour with our Indian FReepers, are you?"

Well, he was, but he now regrets it and says he's sari.

[shibumi]

If you give him a chance he might tandoor an apology.

[Kenny Bunk]

Whatever hindoo be OK with me and no need to sahib about it.

[JRios1968]