Ashutosh Maharaj: Followers win fight to keep guru in freezer

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Ashutosh Maharaj: Followers win fight to keep guru in freezer

5 July 2017 India

An Indian court has granted permission for the followers of a long-dead spiritual guru to preserve his body in a freezer.

Ashutosh Maharaj, founder of the sect Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan (Divine Light Awakening Mission), died of a suspected heart attack in January 2014.

But his followers insist he is only meditating deeply, and will one day return to life.

They have kept his body in a commercial freezer at his vast ashram in Punjab.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-40509494

[gtar100]

1. And they will know the truth...

when the electricity goes out for an extended period of time.

Bound to happen sometime.

[Lordquinton]

2. He's only pining

For the fjords...

[Iggo]

5. He's merely restin'.

[Voltaire2]

3. Mmmmmm... corpsicles.

[guillaumeb]

4. Cool.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. What's cool about it?

[guillaumeb]

7. Humor.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. It's funny?

Please elaborate.

[guillaumeb]

9. He is in a FREEZER.

Thus my response: COOL.

As in, a freezer keeps things cool.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. Still not clear on why that's funny.

Thanks for the instant replay, though.

[Bradical79]

11. Because he's in a freezer -nt

[Act_of_Reparation]

12. Yes, he's in a freezer. Freezers are cold, and "cool" is another word for cold.

I understand how puns work. I don't understand why anyone with a developed sense of humor would find them funny.

[Bradical79]

13. And I don't understand you

Why an eletist snob needs to go out of their way to try and ruin someone's fun on the internet, I have no idea. It's kind of pathetic.

[Act_of_Reparation]

15. Without context, I guess it would be hard to understand.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. That's why Baskin-Robbins has 31 flavors of ice cream.

We don't all like the same things.

Full disclosure: I was brought here by the jury trial.

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. How popular is "Derisively dismiss all and every criticism of religion as atheistic intolerance"

Do you think, perhaps, critics of religion might view the motives of a person repeatedly indulging in this flavor with some suspicion?

Posts don't exist in a vacuum.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. You have a nice day too. NT

[Bradical79]

19. He suffered pun related childhood trauma -nt

[Act_of_Reparation]

21. Exactly.

Auf wiedersehen.

[Bradical79]

20. So a petty personal problem with someone?

And you decided to take it out on puns.

[Act_of_Reparation]

22. You got it.

See, that wasn't so difficult.