Body of Beatles guru in India for last rites

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

ALLAHABAD (AFP) — The body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a one-time spiritual advisor to the Beatles who died this past week in the Netherlands, arrived Saturday in northern Indian for last rites.

Yogi, who died Tuesday in his home in the Dutch village of Vlodrop where he had been living since 1990, will be cremated early Monday, an activist of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) told AFP in New Delhi.

He said Maharishi's body was flown to Varanasi before being taken by road to the pilgrimage centre of Allahabad, situated on the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, considered sacred by devout Hindus.

In Allahabad, people lined the streets as the motorcade drove past, reports said.

Yogi was born in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh but...