An absurd story for gullible westerners by other sentimental westerners. If MMY wanted to follow his guru in death all he had to do was jump into any funeral fire or any sacred river to perform sadhu-sati. Just remember the story of how shocked Alexander the Great's troops were when the Indian sadhu traveling with Alexander sat down on the pyre in meditation posture to exit this burning sansara. Why would we need a cute story like this except to overcome our doubts?
By the way - GD was a danda sanyasin. Was he not buried in a grave or given a stone samadhi as fits a dashanamin? > It's the story of how Maharishi reacted to Guru > Dev's death. According to the stories we've all > been told (which I don't know whether they're true > or not, but they *were* presented to us, almost as > part and parcel of the TM dogma), as Guru Dev's > body was consigned to the Ganges, Maharishi jumped > into the water himself, obviously with an intent > to drowning himself and "following" his beloved > guru into death. According to the versions of the > story that were told to me, Maharishi had to be > physically restrained. > >
