--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > On 03/01/2013 01:49 AM, navashok wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seventhray27" <steve.sundur@> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, navashok <no_reply@> wrote: > > >> snip > > >> > > >> The movement uppers and Rajas would have wanted the body to be > > >> burried, > > >> and have a real Samadhi, but the current Shankaracharya, even though > > >> supportive of the movement did not allow. > > > Which, ofcourse, is pure speculation on your part.
Nope, I know it, I was there at the cremation on February 2008. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/163900 > > > > > > Back in the late 1970s there was a paperback novel called "Gates of > > Fire" that talked about some of the burial rituals. The author Elwyn > > Chamberlain had taught English in India so drew in some of the > > traditions in the novel. That's where I first heard of these different > > types of burials. It may have been optioned for a movie that never got > > made. > > > > http://books.google.com/books/about/Gates_of_Fire.html?id=7HQzVsm0ppoC > > >
