--- 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. > > 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 >
