Vigraha Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 With songs and tears, Lila's Hare Krishna kindred send her to the next life <!--articleTools Top--> Lila's mother Susan Manning, sister Marie and brother Bhisma mourn as her body is prepared for cremation. <SMALL></SMALL> <SMALL>Photo: Matt Wade</SMALL> <!--featurePic-wide--> "Lila" Salter died surrounded by the sound of sacred songs, the smell of incense and with her wounded head ringed with garlands. The Australian teenager's three-day fight for life after being shot at close range by a stalker in the north Indian town of Vrindavan ended early yesterday. Lila's mother Susan Manning, father Ian Salter and brothers and sisters were with her when she died, along with many supporters from the Hare Krishna movement she was a part of. Her brother Zardi Manning said the holy chants being recited by loved ones where Lila lay reached a peak as she died. "It was very amazing and beautiful," he told The Age. "She was very peaceful. It was exactly what she would have wanted." Zardi then accompanied his sister's body while an autopsy was conducted by local authorities before a traditional Hindu funeral and cremation could begin. "I'm being as strong as I can right now," he said. "But it's going to take a lifetime to get over this." Zardi was at the house where Lila was attacked and had to resuscitate her several times while she was rushed to hospital. Their grieving mother, who lives on the Gold Coast when she is not in India, said there was a sense of relief when Lila died. "It's a good thing that she is now free," Ms Manning said. The family says her killer, Saurav Singh, 28, had stalked her for several years before first raping her and then shooting her with a pistol early on Saturday. She was rushed to a New Delhi hospital but specialist doctors said she was brain dead. Using an ambulance with life support equipment, the family then took Lila back to the holy city of Vrindavan to die. She spent the last day of her life on life support at a property called the Mayapur Vrindavan Trust, where Hindu pilgrims are accommodated. The family, who are all Hare Krishna devotees, wanted Lila to die in Vrindavan, the place where the deity Krishna is believed to have been raised. "It's our belief that if a person dies here they are going to heaven," Ms Manning said. "By doing this we have turned something so bad into something more positive." She had hoped to avoid an autopsy on her daughter's body but local authorities insisted one be carried out. When the autopsy was finished the body was prepared for a ritual procession to the holy Yamuna River for cremation. It was covered with richly coloured cloth and garlands. "We feel that she is in God's hands," said her mother. "God will now take care of her." Ms Manning wept as she helped prepare the body for the funeral ceremony. The dead woman's father Ian Salter joined with a large gathering of friends and family around the body who were singing spiritual songs. The body was then carried in a small ambulance, followed by a large procession, to a local temple where Lila liked to worship. Her brothers carried her body on a palanquin around the temple three times before the procession headed through the holy city of Vrindavan to the river for cremation. In Memory of Anandalila Posted February 6th, 2008 by newgovardhana in General Community Notices Ananda lila Salter, loving daughter of Jamal Arjuna Das and Subhangi Devi Dasi and adored sister to five other siblings, passed away in Vrindavan, India on the 5<SUP>th</SUP> Feburary 2008. In the memory of Ananda lila Devi Dasi, who was a very dear and dedicated devotee of Krsna, there will be a service held at New Govardhana on Monday 11<SUP>th </SUP>Febuary at 6:00pm N.S.W time. 6:00pm Bhajans 6:30pm Candle lit Gaura Arati ceremony 7:00pm Homages For more information please contact 026672 2773 or 0415 276757 If you have any photos or Ananda Lila you would like to share, please send to dhritigopi@gmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sarva gattah Posted February 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Slide show http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2008/world/lila/index.html 1. lilapila - 2. sillylily - 3. lilarani - Matt Wade, Delhi February 9, 2008 ZARDI Manning gripped the hand of his brother Bhisma as the pair watched the body of their 17-year-old sister Lila burn on a funeral pyre beside India's sacred Yamuna River. Anandalila — Lila to her family and friends — had died earlier in the day from gunshot wounds in Vrindavan, one of India's holiest towns. "I know there is a lot grieving to come, but for now I feel happy for her," said Mr Manning, who like the rest of his family is a Hare Krishna. Lila's cremation was the culmination of a horrifying few days for Mr Manning, a softly spoken 28-year-old, who lives on the Gold Coast. Mr Manning was at the family's place in Vrindavan last Saturday morning when Saurav Singh, a 28-year-old local man, arrived brandishing a pistol and demanding to see Lila. Singh had attempted to pursue a relationship with Lila when she was just 14 and he was 24. Mr Manning demanded that he leave her alone. Singh, the nephew of a former cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, put the gun to Mr Manning's chest and threatened to kill him. "He had been drinking, you could smell it," he said. Eventually Singh and Lila sat in a room to talk while Mr Manning waited anxiously outside the door. After a long silence, the sound of muffled gunshots came from inside. "I never in a million years thought that would happen," Mr Manning said. He found his sister lying in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor, shot three times in the head. Singh had turned the gun on himself and was dead. Locals say relations between Westerners and townspeople are generally good, so the death of a young devout Hare Krishna has rocked the community. "People are just devastated," said Peter Rohde, an Australian temple architect based in Vrindavan who knows the family. "It's a tight-knit community and this is a holy place. Things like this don't usually happen here." Each year thousands of people from across the world are drawn to the dusty town of Vrindavan, about 150 kilometres south of Delhi, because of its significance to Hinduism. According to Hindu texts, it is the place where the deity Lord Krishna grew up. It is estimated about 500 foreigners, many of them Hare Krishnas, have made Vrindavan a permanent or semi-permanent home. Like other holy sites in India, the constant arrival of Western visitors has spawned a large tourism and service industry to cater for them, including hotels, guesthouses, ashrams, internet cafes and guides. But according to Lila's mother, Susan Manning, parts of Uttar Pradesh state, India's most populous, are like "the Wild West" because law enforcement has been made ineffective by corruption. She plans to launch a worldwide petition in memory of Lila, calling on the Indian Government to introduce stricter gun control and more effective law enforcement in places such as Vrindavan. Ms Manning says that a few days before Singh shot Lila he raped her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. She labelled him a "stalker and a psychopath". She said the family had complained to police about Singh's unwanted attention, but nothing was done. Local authorities have shut the book on the investigation into Lila's death. The police senior superintendent in the area, R. K. Chaturvedi, says because the murderer is dead "no further action in this case is possible". That is not good enough for Ms Manning. "This is a cover-up," she says. Lila's family and friends are angry about the way the Indian media have portrayed the murder. The first newspaper reports of the attack said Lila was 27, not 17, and described the pair as lovers. Several days after the attack a headline in The Times of India said "Aussie girl shot by 'lover' dies", and reported that police suspect Lila and her killer "had had an affair". The family deny this and claim authorities are trying to protect the reputation of the killer's family by suggesting the attack was somehow understandable as a crime of passion. The local clinic was not equipped to deal with Lila's injuries so she was taken by ambulance to Agra, about 50 kilometres away. Mr Manning was forced to resuscitate Lila several times on the way and was covered in blood when they arrived. His youngest sister, Marie, 12, was with him ong that journey. Lila was put on life support and transferred yet again, this time to the large Apollo hospital in New Delhi. Specialists there discovered that Lila was brain dead and there was nothing they could do. Lila was taken by an ambulance with life support equipment to a guesthouse associated with the Hare Krishna movement in Vrindavan. A large group of supporters kept a vigil, singing religious songs accompanied by drums and bells until her heart failed on Tuesday morning. "Everyone was able to whisper their last goodbyes to Lila," said Ms Manning. Ms Manning, 48, has been a Hare Krishna since she visited a Hindu temple in Murwillumbah, NSW, as a teenager. After three children with her first husband, she married fellow Hare Krishna devotee Ian Salter and they had three more children, including Lila. The family have spent long periods in India with Hare Krishna communities over the past 30 years and are well known in Vrindavan. Their businesses in Queensland includes one that sells handicrafts imported from India. Lila was born in Murwillumbah but spent much of her childhood in India and had many close friends here. Like her siblings, she spoke and wrote fluent Hindi. "I am Australian but I have basically grown up in India," says her MySpace page. "I love India and have travelled the world to find no place like it." Zardi Manning and his 19-year-old brother Bhisma led the funeral procession through the streets of Vrindavan, stopping along the way to take Lila's body around temples that were important to her. With the help of friends, the brothers built Lila's funeral pyre, a metre from the river's edge. Zardi helped carry her body into the Yamuna to ritually bathe the body before cremation. The pain showed on Zardi's face as he placed logs over his sister's body. At one point he tenderly adjusted the indigo shroud to cover Lila's face, maybe to hide her wounds. The brothers sprinkled the body with ghee and sandalwood powder, in keeping with Hindu custom. Then the pyre was built even higher. It was above head height by the time it was completed. About dusk, they lit the pyre. The brothers and their friends tended the pyre for many hours to make sure everything was burned. It was approaching midnight when Zardi left the fire. The following day, the ashes were collected. Some were put in the holy river adjacent to the pyre and several portions were kept to be sprinkled at other holy sites in India. One portion will be taken back to Australia for a another special ceremony. Dr Rohde said the funeral showed how deeply integrated into Hindu culture some children from Hare Krishna families had become. "They look like Westerners but they are actually pretty full-on Hindus who know all the traditions," Dr Rohde said. Ms Manning sees a parallel with her family's experience in an episode from the ancient India epic, the Ramayana. In that story, the wicked king Ravana wants to possess Sita, the pure and loyal wife of the deity Ram. While Ram is absent, the evil Ravana approaches Sita's house and tricks her into walking outside by posing as a beggar. He then snatches her away. "Our own beautiful Sita has been taken by an evil Ravana," Ms Manning says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krishnaleela Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 When I read this story first last week, it at once made me feel the importance of not wasting the time and opportunity that I have and to work harder. Many are struggling with basic necessities, many are unconscious of a spiritual path, and some though conscious of it are removed so suddenly it seems. Who knows when my turn comes? To have so much and waste it away in useless pursuits of the flesh and mind. At least, I am going to make a better attempt, be more aware and made some changes already. I feel this is the best way to keep the memory and its meaning alive in one's own life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Svarupa Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Slide show http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2008/world/lila/index.html 1. lilapila - 2. sillylily - 3. lilarani - Matt Wade, Delhi February 9, 2008 ZARDI Manning gripped the hand of his brother Bhisma as the pair watched the body of their 17-year-old sister Lila burn on a funeral pyre beside India's sacred Yamuna River. Anandalila — Lila to her family and friends — had died earlier in the day from gunshot wounds in Vrindavan, one of India's holiest towns. "I know there is a lot grieving to come, but for now I feel happy for her," said Mr Manning, who like the rest of his family is a Hare Krishna. Lila's cremation was the culmination of a horrifying few days for Mr Manning, a softly spoken 28-year-old, who lives on the Gold Coast. Mr Manning was at the family's place in Vrindavan last Saturday morning when Saurav Singh, a 28-year-old local man, arrived brandishing a pistol and demanding to see Lila. Singh had attempted to pursue a relationship with Lila when she was just 14 and he was 24. Mr Manning demanded that he leave her alone. Singh, the nephew of a former cabinet minister in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, put the gun to Mr Manning's chest and threatened to kill him. "He had been drinking, you could smell it," he said. Eventually Singh and Lila sat in a room to talk while Mr Manning waited anxiously outside the door. After a long silence, the sound of muffled gunshots came from inside. "I never in a million years thought that would happen," Mr Manning said. He found his sister lying in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor, shot three times in the head. Singh had turned the gun on himself and was dead. Locals say relations between Westerners and townspeople are generally good, so the death of a young devout Hare Krishna has rocked the community. "People are just devastated," said Peter Rohde, an Australian temple architect based in Vrindavan who knows the family. "It's a tight-knit community and this is a holy place. Things like this don't usually happen here." Each year thousands of people from across the world are drawn to the dusty town of Vrindavan, about 150 kilometres south of Delhi, because of its significance to Hinduism. According to Hindu texts, it is the place where the deity Lord Krishna grew up. It is estimated about 500 foreigners, many of them Hare Krishnas, have made Vrindavan a permanent or semi-permanent home. Like other holy sites in India, the constant arrival of Western visitors has spawned a large tourism and service industry to cater for them, including hotels, guesthouses, ashrams, internet cafes and guides. But according to Lila's mother, Susan Manning, parts of Uttar Pradesh state, India's most populous, are like "the Wild West" because law enforcement has been made ineffective by corruption. She plans to launch a worldwide petition in memory of Lila, calling on the Indian Government to introduce stricter gun control and more effective law enforcement in places such as Vrindavan. Ms Manning says that a few days before Singh shot Lila he raped her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. She labelled him a "stalker and a psychopath". She said the family had complained to police about Singh's unwanted attention, but nothing was done. Local authorities have shut the book on the investigation into Lila's death. The police senior superintendent in the area, R. K. Chaturvedi, says because the murderer is dead "no further action in this case is possible". That is not good enough for Ms Manning. "This is a cover-up," she says. Lila's family and friends are angry about the way the Indian media have portrayed the murder. The first newspaper reports of the attack said Lila was 27, not 17, and described the pair as lovers. Several days after the attack a headline in The Times of India said "Aussie girl shot by 'lover' dies", and reported that police suspect Lila and her killer "had had an affair". The family deny this and claim authorities are trying to protect the reputation of the killer's family by suggesting the attack was somehow understandable as a crime of passion. The local clinic was not equipped to deal with Lila's injuries so she was taken by ambulance to Agra, about 50 kilometres away. Mr Manning was forced to resuscitate Lila several times on the way and was covered in blood when they arrived. His youngest sister, Marie, 12, was with him ong that journey. Lila was put on life support and transferred yet again, this time to the large Apollo hospital in New Delhi. Specialists there discovered that Lila was brain dead and there was nothing they could do. Lila was taken by an ambulance with life support equipment to a guesthouse associated with the Hare Krishna movement in Vrindavan. A large group of supporters kept a vigil, singing religious songs accompanied by drums and bells until her heart failed on Tuesday morning. "Everyone was able to whisper their last goodbyes to Lila," said Ms Manning. Ms Manning, 48, has been a Hare Krishna since she visited a Hindu temple in Murwillumbah, NSW, as a teenager. After three children with her first husband, she married fellow Hare Krishna devotee Ian Salter and they had three more children, including Lila. The family have spent long periods in India with Hare Krishna communities over the past 30 years and are well known in Vrindavan. Their businesses in Queensland includes one that sells handicrafts imported from India. Lila was born in Murwillumbah but spent much of her childhood in India and had many close friends here. Like her siblings, she spoke and wrote fluent Hindi. "I am Australian but I have basically grown up in India," says her MySpace page. "I love India and have travelled the world to find no place like it." Zardi Manning and his 19-year-old brother Bhisma led the funeral procession through the streets of Vrindavan, stopping along the way to take Lila's body around temples that were important to her. With the help of friends, the brothers built Lila's funeral pyre, a metre from the river's edge. Zardi helped carry her body into the Yamuna to ritually bathe the body before cremation. The pain showed on Zardi's face as he placed logs over his sister's body. At one point he tenderly adjusted the indigo shroud to cover Lila's face, maybe to hide her wounds. The brothers sprinkled the body with ghee and sandalwood powder, in keeping with Hindu custom. Then the pyre was built even higher. It was above head height by the time it was completed. About dusk, they lit the pyre. The brothers and their friends tended the pyre for many hours to make sure everything was burned. It was approaching midnight when Zardi left the fire. The following day, the ashes were collected. Some were put in the holy river adjacent to the pyre and several portions were kept to be sprinkled at other holy sites in India. One portion will be taken back to Australia for a another special ceremony. Dr Rohde said the funeral showed how deeply integrated into Hindu culture some children from Hare Krishna families had become. "They look like Westerners but they are actually pretty full-on Hindus who know all the traditions," Dr Rohde said. Ms Manning sees a parallel with her family's experience in an episode from the ancient India epic, the Ramayana. In that story, the wicked king Ravana wants to possess Sita, the pure and loyal wife of the deity Ram. While Ram is absent, the evil Ravana approaches Sita's house and tricks her into walking outside by posing as a beggar. He then snatches her away. "Our own beautiful Sita has been taken by an evil Ravana," Ms Manning says. This Mat Wade sounds like a devotee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted February 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Open Letter by Subhangi-devi dasi mother of Lila Open letter from the heart of Subhangi-devi dasi to the wonderful devotees of the Lord around the world. All glories, all glories to our Divine and wonderful Guru Maharaja saviour of the whole world, Srila Prabhupada! No not the whole world, the whole universe and beyond. The greatest ocean of pure love and compassion, who is always with us and is 100% going to deliver us to the lotus feet of Sri Krishna and Srimati Radharani. Please all devotees do not cry for our sweet Ananda Lila, who never truly belonged in this world. She is with her beloved Radha-Shyamasundara and can never suffer again any of the pains and miseries of this world. Krishna has taken her away in a flash, with no prolonged pain. She was always blessed and so spoilt. She never suffered or was in want of anything in the 17 years (7 +1=8, lucky) of her life. The only thing that ever, from her birth, had any meaning for her was Sri Vrindavan Dhama and Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara, Sri Sri Krishna-Balarama, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Sri Radha-Raman and mostly her faith in Srila Prabhupada. Her devotion to Prabhupada was unwavering. He was her absolute hero (along with her Dad). Now she has attained all of the above and will deliver her Dad as well as whoever loved, protected and served her unconditionally. We are so sad to not have her personal association any more, but at the same time immensely proud of her and full of prema in our hearts for her which we will drink of its bitter sweet nectar for the rest of our lives. I want to especially thank all the gurukulis worldwide. You are all great souls, rupanuga-vaisnavas, gathered worldwide to purify the planet and preach Krishna's glories and the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I want to thank Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari who have been the light of my life since I came to Krishna Consciousness and all of the residents of New Govardhan farm who prayed for Lita to go back to Godhead, all the residents of Vrindavan Dhama who prayed for Lita to go back, everyone worldwide who prayed for her to go back. You really rattled Krishna's cage; you tied His hands and he had to take her. It was your strong prayers which gave her strength. I'd like to thank all the devotees who were present in the room when she left (05/02/2008=5+2+2+8=17=8 lucky!). Their Kirtan was so powerful and ecstatic that it literally catapulted her soul back to Godhead. Please if you are in anyway concerned for me, keep sending those memories of Lila via Chakra and e-mail. They are medicine for my heart, and so beautiful (thank you dear Kum Kum dasi, love you). But please do not cryifeast!! Have a whomba stompa Kirtan worldwide!! One devotee has gone back to Krishna! Be happy. Krishna is carrying all my pain for me. All glories to His causeless mercy upon this undeserving soul. His mercy never ceases to amaze. And lastly, thank you all so much for your outpouring of unconditional and pure love to my family. We will always remember and deeply appreciate it. Just remember that cute little girl who used to run off to the 24 hour Kirtan and dance and twirl in front of Radha Shyamasundar like a gopi, and kick and go blue in the face whenever I would try to take her home. Now she can dance forever. Your most fallen servant, Subhangi-devi dasi From Lila’s Father: Dear Vaisnavas, Please accept my humble obeisances, All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. I would like to thank all the ISKCON devotees for their love and support at this difficult time. We especially would like to thank Bhurijana Prabhu, Jagattarini Mataji, Braja Bihari Prabhu, and Aindra Prabhu. We would also like to thank the G. B. C, particularly Bhanu Swami for his kind support and the management of Krishna Balaram Mandir and M. V. T. Also thanks to Gopal Krishna Maharaja and the Delhi Yatra for their support. We would also like to thank Priya Shaki Mataji and Surabhi Mataji. Without this support we would not have been able to make it through. Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada, Jamal Arjuna Das Father of Ananda Lila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarva gattah Posted February 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Gratitude from Anandalila’s family <!-- end .post-top --><!-- the main section of the post goes here --> By Yasomati - nandana das On behalf of Jamalarjuna and Subhangi and our entire family, I would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all devotees who kindly offerred prayers for Lila’s recovery and condolences now that she has passed from our vision. read more… With audio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchandra Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 The Reality of Eve Teasing http://www.chakra.org/discussions/PersonalFeb12_08.html by Choti Tungi Posted February 12, 2008 With sadness I have read the articles here dealing with Lila dasi and her tragic death. Upon first reading this particular sentence, "Unfortunately, everything changed a few days ago when a stalker, who was obsessed with Lila, made his way into their house and shot her before turning the gun on himself," I thought to myself, "nothing has changed." Having spent several years residing in Sri Braj Dham myself, the ever-present issue of India's problem with "eve teasing", (their concealed way of saying "sexual harrasment") is a constant reality for us women there, whether Indian citizens, tourists, or foreign vaishnavis on pilgrimage. I think every woman reading this who has been to India knows what I'm talking about. Funny, I was just reading a website about a group of young women in India who have recently started a grass-roots revolution to put a stop to the weird staring, following, stalking, lewd talking and touching that they and millions of women in India have to face on a daily basis while walking to school, riding a bus or taking a train, and then I popped on Chakra and read the results of what can come of such behaviour when it veers completely out of control - the murder of a young vaishnava. I am now more determined than ever to join in solidarity with Indian women in their fight against this evil of what is called "eve teasing" and bring an end to it, at least within the boundaries of Sri Vrindavan Dham. There are several social and cultural factors that lead to this type of behaviour in men and they of course are being explored, analysed and written about to no end by Indians themselves, but I feel as women who are coming from safer and more empowered environments and cultures, we can contribute to the cause of Indian women as well, perhaps with fresh insight. I know that many female pilgrims of various vaishnava backgrounds (as well as secular tourists) return from India dismayed with the disrespect of women and sexual harrassment they face there. So many of my own sisters have relayed this to me, and now we see it taken to an extreme in Lila's case. Let us do something before it again becomes too late for someone else! For corresponce you can write to me at tungbidya@. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theist Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Yeah and India seems to have a lot of Adam teasers also. Going to India? Take a stun gun with you for in crowd situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokeshvara Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 when i first read through this thread the other night, the story left me with tears in my eyes. may Lila have peace and ever lasting joy with her beloved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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