Hare Krishna!
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Firstly I apologize for this question. If any Prabhuji/ Mataji wants this to be deleted, please let me know, I will delete this.
The question is,
1. Why after death(actually leaving HIS material body) Srila Prabhupada's body was not burnt? One of my friends asked this question to me, but I could not answer him.
2. He said, Isn't this against Dharma (Specially Hindu Dharama)?
I only told him the soul which is liberated and gets salvation does not require to be burnt. This can be buried in the Samadhi ( Mayapur Samadhi Mandir ).
Just Servant
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Prabhu Ji
I have a no. of confusions n questions please Prabhu Ji ..
1.Do all Respected Gaudiye Vaishnavas (including Pp Srila bhaktivinod thakur ji ,Srila Bhakti Siddhartha sarasvati thakur ji,Srila Bp keshav maharaja bd madhav maharaja bhakti rakshak maharaja n bhaktivallabh truths maharaja n other Iskcon Vaishnavas saints} dead bodies were /are buried or cremated too ?Really I don't know I m very much confused after seeing Pp Srila Prabhupada disappearance ceremony video ton8 ...Hare Krishna
Radhe radhe
NITAIGOUR gour PREMANANDE HARI HARI bol
Prabhupāda: Material means when the consciousness is not Kṛṣṇa. That is material. The same example, that iron rod, if kept to the fire, gradually it becomes warm, warmer, and at last it becomes red. When it is red, it is no longer iron; it is fire. Similarly, by spiritual association, your body gradually becomes spiritualized. And at the perfection stage, there is no more material activities, simply the activities of the fire. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:
māṁ cāvyabhicāriṇi-
bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate
sa guṇān samatītyaitān
brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
( BG 14.26)
The whole body becomes supplemented with Brahman effulgence. It is not for everyone, and those who are very, very much spiritually advanced, their body becomes like that. Therefore a Vaiṣṇava ācārya's body is never burned. It is entombed. They worship the body. But that is spiritual body.
(Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970)
I am greatful to Iskcondesiretree for paving this platform to get answers to.most of your questions.
I am in total cognizance with Mataji. Maral Alymova. Yes! A holy, pious and u doubted saint's body is always buried, for he is an inspirational example to many. A similar inference can been drawn the late. Shankaracharya died few years back and his disciples too portrayed and monumented his body turning into a statue and then burning it.
There is no such thing as #Hindu. Hindu means we arise from Hindh-Mahasagar, The Hindh ocean.
We are conditioned materialized 5 elemental (panchatattava) body which if not been ignited by knowledge of #Hare Krishna will surely lament after death. So we are burnt to ashes.
#Hare Krishna
My humble obeisances Prabhu,
First of all You can tell Your friend that there is no such like word as "Hindu" in Vedic Shastras - Nowhere!
So according to Vedas saint's body is spiritual. So it is not burned. But kept in Samadhi. As like Yamunacharya's body. After he left this world his body moved and even still it did not loose form.
So saintly peoples' bodies are spiritual - and object of worship.
The meaning of burning is:
after death conditioned soul cannot leave his body because he is attached to his material body so cries, and laments seeing his body lying dead. Because of that suffers. Because of that it is recommended to burn so that that conditioned soul can forget it and go and take another body.
So it is the meaning of burning - to remove attachment to the body.
But saints are saints they are not attached to this material world.
Your servant,