Article on George Harrison Highlighting India/ISKCON

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Here is an article published around India on the New Indian Express Daily on

3rd of December 2001 about George Harrison and his departure, etc.

The article in word is attached as well.

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Article in the new Indian Express December 3rd, 2001, Bangalore, India:

 

LAST JOURNEY TO HIS SPIRITUAL HOME

 

LONDON: Former Beatle George Harrison was secretly cremated within six hours

of his death, before the world even realized he was gone.

 

The spiritual explorer and Krishna devotees, who had a long

association with India, chose to be cremated and the simple funeral service

held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery and Crematorium was in all secrecy, so as

to ensure that finally in death the star would elude the Beatle-mania.

 

His ashes will be bought to India to be immersed in the

Ganges in accordance with his wishes, a spokesman of Hare Krishna movement

to the Daily Mall.

 

Harrison, who died of cancer on Thursday at a rented house,

in the presence of his wife Olivia and son Dhani amid chants and prayers by

the Krishna devotees, was dressed in traditional dhoti and kurta before

begin taken for cremation in an unadorned whit van.

 

Two of his closet friends, Shyamasundar das and Mukunda

Goswami, chanted quietly until the end. The two Hare Krishna movement

activists sprinkle led holy water from the Ganges on Harrison's head. They

placed Tulsi leaf between his lips and a wreath of Tulsi leaves around his

neck, humming verses from the Bhagavad-Gita.

 

Three months ago, Harrison realized he was likely to die and

he decided to make a secret pilgrimage to his spiritual birthplace Varanasi

to prepare for death, the Mall said. Pale, thin and losing hair, George

Harrison came to Varanasi , the place where he discovered eastern mysticism

in the 1960's, to bathe in the sacred water and pray in the temple.

 

 

HARRISON'S SWANSONG

 

LONDON: former Beatle George Harrison was secretly recording a last album in

the months before he died, according to British media reports on Sunday. The

Sunday Times newspaper said Harrison played tracks from the album to his

family at a Los Angeles hospital last Sunday , four days before his death

from cancer at the age of 58 .Harrison gave the album the working title

Portrait of a leg end, a jokey reference to his uneasy relationship with

fame, the paper said.