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| Maharishi Yogi cremated inAllahabad |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may have been born in India but his real fame and following as a meditation guru was in the West.
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| INDIA
, 12-February-2008
0:45:15 AM |
| Maharishi Mahesh Yogi may have been born in India but his real fame and following as a meditation guru was in the West.
His funeral, on the banks on Ganga in Allahabad, saw his foreign following outnumbering Indians.
They were all there in their white robes, most of them middle-aged followers of the Maharishi, who made headlines when the Beatles first came to his ashram in Rishikesh in the year 1968.
When the last flavours of the hippie movement was pushing many in the West to look towards alternative philosophies, with the Beatles as brand ambassadors, the Maharishi's transcendental meditation became a global mantra.
Through the 70s the Maharishi cult grew into what is today a multi-billion dollar global empire, a cult that drew not only the faithful but even foreign press.
''There were these people of the 70s, the hippies, why they were attracted to Maharishi,'' said Stene, Danish journalist.
Also present were some 500 odd Indian followers from his ashram. But most were from the nearby villages, drawn out by the spectacle of a helicopter showering petals on the funeral pyre.
''The whole family came and we enjoyed the helicopter showering petals. The Maharishi was a big man,'' said Meeta, villager.
Given Maharishi Yogi's global footprint, his successor is not an Indian but a Lebanese follower Tony Nader, who now has been rechristened as Maharaj Raja Ram.
The Maharishi's ashes will be immersed in the Sangam after 20 days, but not before small urns of his ashes are sent to each of his thousands of ashrams around the world.
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