Maharishi Yogi is cremated
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Thousands of followers of Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi attend his cremation in the northern India city of Allahabad.
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Alice Lakwena, a Ugandan warrior priestess who led an insurgency in the 1980s and claimed to have spiritual powers to protect her fighters from bullets by anointing them with oil, was laid to rest at a funeral attended by several hundred followers.
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Too often, those who make the greatest contributions to mankind pass away into obscurity, their legacy becoming one with the collective experience. One such man passed away this month. You may not know him or recognize his name, but you have cause to mourn his passing.  And what was his gift to the world? You need look no further than the grey image above these words.
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The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi are scattered in the sea on the 60th anniversary of his assassination.
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Scientists are examining using the ancient Indian   ayurvedic medicine for use in drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease.
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FREDERICTON, Canada -- Someone gave Theresa Seeley tobacco to scatter on her son's coffin -- a gift, in the Indian tradition, for the elders waiting to greet his soul.
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A small but growing number of yoga practitioners are reaching out to the homeless, to prisons and to troubled youth.
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HYDERABAD, India - Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, the father of Indiaâs economic reforms who died this week in political obscurity, was cremated on Saturday in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.
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MADRAS, 28 December 2004 - Grief and anguish marked final rituals across Southeast Asia yesterday as relatives buried or cremated their loved ones; and the death toll from a powerful earthquake and the giant tidal waves it unleashed crossed 25,000.
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The body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a one-time spiritual advisor to the Beatles who died this past week in the Netherlands, arrived in northern Indian for last rites.
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MANY mourned his death by crying, lighting candles, chanting their idol&#39;s name, or waving banners and small flags calling him President.
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A more gentle form of yoga is catching on in some retirement communities. The yoga mat is replaced by the chair. Sometimes two.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The cremated remains of six people were found in the basement of a rental home where the tenant was being evicted, officials said.  The ashes were found in boxes as workers removed belongings from the house, said Dr. Ron Holmes, Jefferson County coroner.
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Some of the final ashes of Mohandas K.  Gandhi, India's freedom hero and peace apostle, also known as  Mahatma, will be scattered over the Arabian Sea after his  family objected to a museum's plans to display them.
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Those caring for him at a Hindu monastery in Wales say he symbolizes the sanctity of all life and is an inspiration to temple-goers. Officials say he could have a contagious disease and should be put down.
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Indonesiaâs former strongman was buried with an overlay of the Javanese mysticism that, for some people, had given him the aura of a king.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- Day after day, the bodies keep arriving at Wat Lam Kaen. The Buddhist temple in the Khao Lak beach section of this popular resort is one of several temples in the area that have been turned into makeshift morgues, where the calming aroma of incense has been overcome by the sulfurous smell of decay.