By IANS
London : The funeral of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will be held in Allahabad Feb 11, a spokesman for his foundation said Thursday.
The funeral will be held 10 a.m. at the confluence the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.
“We are expecting a very large number of people to turn up from all over the world and are busy preparing arrangements for them,” spokesman Charles Cunningham said.
The Indian guru, who took yoga and transcendental meditation to the world outside India, died of natural causes Tuesday at his Dutch retreat of Vlodrop. He was thought to be 91.
One of his main aides, Peter Warburton, told IANS from The Netherlands that a handful of devotees, including Mahesh Yogi’s chosen successor Tony Nader and Girish Varma from India, were with the Indian guru when he breathed his last.
Warburton said Mahesh Yogi recalled his own guru Brahmananda Saraswati, the late Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath, better known as Guru Deva, on his deathbed.
“The Maharishi’s last words were, ‘It has been my pleasure, at the feet of Guru Deva, to take the light of Guru Deva and pass it on in my environment’,” Warburton said.