by Elizabeth Usha Harding
This intimate video contains rare and intimate footage of the passing of the 11th President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, India’s largest monastic order. 60,000 people watched the flames leap up the funeral pyre and paid tribute to a monk whose exemplary life and great works substantiate his saying: “There is no death for a knower of God.”  Original flute by Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.