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Indian court asked to rule on whether Hindu guru dead or meditating
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 28 May 2014 | Dean Nelson, New Delhi

Posted on 06/03/2014 1:28:22 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: freedomlover
Perhaps he’s just pining.

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

21 posted on 06/03/2014 2:24:38 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Giving them the cold shoulder?


22 posted on 06/03/2014 2:38:21 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: BenLurkin; TigersEye; Fred Nerks

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


23 posted on 06/03/2014 2:38:55 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Colonel_Flagg; freedomlover

‘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!


24 posted on 06/03/2014 3:04:57 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Candor7

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


25 posted on 06/03/2014 3:12:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Beautiful plumage.


26 posted on 06/03/2014 3:57:30 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: BenLurkin

He has moved beyond meditating to dessicating.


27 posted on 06/03/2014 4:32:39 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Sssh! The Maestro is (de)composing!


28 posted on 06/03/2014 4:43:45 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Red_Devil 232
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.

29 posted on 06/03/2014 4:47:59 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: BenLurkin
Shouldn't they have freeze-dried him?

Just add water - voylah - instant guru.

30 posted on 06/03/2014 4:51:19 PM PDT by eldoradude (How many democrats does it take to change a light bulb?)
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To: BenLurkin
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.........
31 posted on 06/03/2014 5:35:59 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“’E’s pinin’ for Nirvana, Sir.”


32 posted on 06/03/2014 6:29:09 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; a fool in paradise; ZirconEncrustedTweezers; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; ...
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.

33 posted on 06/03/2014 6:56:07 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The great)
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To: RichInOC

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


34 posted on 06/03/2014 7:28:17 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Candor7

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


35 posted on 06/03/2014 7:50:27 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The great)
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To: Kenny Bunk

I see what you did there...


36 posted on 06/03/2014 8:26:33 PM PDT by L,TOWM (No one in the US is free of the spirit of entitlement)
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To: Kenny Bunk; Slings and Arrows; Candor7; Salamander
"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.

37 posted on 06/03/2014 10:25:10 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Kenny Bunk; Slings and Arrows; Candor7; Salamander

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


38 posted on 06/03/2014 10:27:05 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi; Slings and Arrows; Candor7; Salamander

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


39 posted on 06/03/2014 11:24:15 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (The great)
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40 posted on 06/04/2014 5:32:23 AM PDT by JRios1968 (I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
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