{"id":6591,"date":"2008-02-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/02\/11\/mahesh-yogi-cremated-in-allahabad\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:00:00","slug":"mahesh-yogi-cremated-in-allahabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/02\/11\/mahesh-yogi-cremated-in-allahabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahesh Yogi Cremated in Allahabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/02\/11\/news\/India-Maharishi.php\">www.iht.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">ALLAHABAD, INDIA, February 11, 2008: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was cremated Monday in a tumultuous ceremony at one of Hinduism&#8217;s holiest sites. His funeral, on the banks of the Ganges in Allahabad, saw his foreign following outnumbering Indians. <\/p>\n<p>The funeral was a mix of ancient Vedic tradition, modern Indian chaos and Hollywood-style theatrics. Thousands of flag-waving followers beating drums, clanging cymbals and chanting hymns carried the flower-covered body from the Maharishi&#8217;s ashram to a hilltop. Baton-wielding police couldn&#8217;t stop a surge of followers who broke through their cordon while the body was being carried. A helicopter swooped in low, stirring up huge dust clouds and scattering posters of the guru as it dropped a scarlet cloud of rose petals.<\/p>\n<p>The body was cremated on a pyre, sitting in a lotus position. Contrary to Hindu tradition, the Maharishi&#8217;s ashes were not immersed in the Ganges, but will be kept at a memorial to be built at the cremation site.<\/p>\n<p>Today, TM has more than 5 million practitioners. Maharishi&#8217;s successor is Maharaj Raja Ram, a Lebanese-born follower.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.iht.com ALLAHABAD, INDIA, February 11, 2008: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was cremated Monday in a tumultuous ceremony at one of Hinduism&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}