Setanta wrote on Sep 8
th, 2019 at 10:16pm:
Miam miam, eh K?
Indeed. When Paramahamsa Yogananda died (author of Autobiography of a Yogi),
his corpse had not decayed a month later, as reported by the California state coroner. The doctors who examined the corpse had never seen this before.
Another of the useless benefits of spiritual development, like not needing food. Who'd care about the corpse they leave?
Yogananda did die in his mid-50s though. I'm not sure how.
It might have been liver cancer. Yogis call the death of an enlightened person mahasamadhi.
Nirvakalpa samadhi is known as the deathless, breathless state. I've met people who've seen a guru enter this state. Paramahamsa Hariharananda was giving a talk in Holland in the late 70s. He blanked out mid-sentence. A doctor in the audience checked his pulse and breath and said he was dead.
Another person said they'd heard of this, the guru was in samadhi. They left him for about 20 minutes and he came to.
I wouldn't believe this story if I didn't speak to a participant. He too checked the guru - he'd organised the talk. Hariharananda had absolutely no breath or heartbeat.
Their faith, I think, explains why they didn't immediately call an ambulance. The guru came to and finished his talk. I'm not sure how he explained his Samadhi to an audience of Westerners.