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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.
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The late or living guru, who was in his seventies, established his sect in 1983 to promote "self-awakening to global peace" and to create a world "wherein every individual becomes an embodiment of truth, fraternity and justice through the eternal science of self-realisation". 30 years later still no peace -- but he sure made a few bucks along the way.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:28:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Perhaps he’s just pining.
To: freedomlover
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:29:35 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
He's really, most sincerely dead.
To: BenLurkin
“This. Is. An. EX Guru!”
“He’s merely meditating...”
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:31:26 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: BenLurkin
Put a little mirror by his nostrils..
Suspended animation? I don’t know..
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:32:24 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: BenLurkin; Slings and Arrows; GeronL
A nun with a piece of chalk could tell if he's sleeping. Wouldn't have to get closer than 20 feet, either.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:34:29 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: BenLurkin
Does he smell really really Bad? I mean worse than he normally smelled walking around.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:34:56 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
To: freedomlover
He’s praying for global warming to kick in ASAP!
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:35:30 PM PDT
by
shotgun
To: BenLurkin
maybe he’s only mostly dead...go through his clothes and look for loose change.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:35:46 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: a fool in paradise
He is in a state of suspended animation as a time capsule for the 24th century. Don’t mind the smell and the appearance of decay, it’s all just a side effect.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:36:04 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:36:57 PM PDT
by
william clark
(Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: BenLurkin
Just damn.....
If he wasn’t dead when they put him in the freezer, he damn sure is NOW!
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:38:44 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: BenLurkin
In your freezer you will achieve total shaktipat.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:41:07 PM PDT
by
posterchild
(It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
To: BenLurkin; Slings and Arrows
Is this worthy of not pinging?
To: freedomlover
Weekend at Shri Ashutosh Maharaj’s
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
DanielRedfoot
(Creepy Ass Cracker)
To: BenLurkin
I think he's dancing on a cruise ship in a Heineken commercial.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:47:38 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: BenLurkin
to promote "self-awakening"Well there's the problem -- only he can wake himself up.
To: a fool in paradise; ZirconEncrustedTweezers; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; ...
He's on a date with Norman Bates's mother.
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posted on
06/03/2014 1:55:02 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: BenLurkin
For people who aren’t supposed to care about material things....someone sure seems worried about material things here.
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06/03/2014 2:05:34 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
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