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Hindu rituals after death, including Vedic rituals after death, are ceremonial rituals in Hinduism, one of the samskaras (rite of passage) based on Vedas and other Hindu texts, performed after the death of a human being for their moksha and consequent ascendance to Svarga (heaven). Some of these vary across the spectrum of Hindu society.
The last rites are usually completed within a day of death. While practices vary among sects, generally, his or her body is washed, wrapped in white cloth, if the dead is a man or a widow, or red cloth, if it is a woman whose husband is still alive, [ 7 ] the big toes are tied together with a string and a Tilak (red, yellow or white mark) is ...
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Rituals of Śrāddha in a Hindu family. Śrāddha (Sanskrit: श्राद्ध), is a ritual that some Hindus perform to pay homage to their pitṛs (dead ancestors). [1] They believe that the ritual would provide peace to the ancestors in their afterlife. It is performed on the death anniversaries of the departed as per the Hindu Calendar.
Piṇḍas are balls of cooked rice mixed with ghee and black sesame seeds offered to ancestors during Hindu funeral rites and ancestor worship . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to traditions in the Garuda Puran, offering a pinda to a recently departed soul helps to unite the soul with its ancestors. [ 4 ]
For those who grow up celebrating the Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead tradition which originated in Mexico, this holiday can offer an encouraging perspective on the loss of a loved one.
According to Hindu belief, death happens on two levels: a physical death and a ritual death. The latter happens only after the kapala kriya ritual of the funeral, when the skull of the burnt corpse bursts or a hole is opened in it so the prana (life force) exits it. The corpse used for shava sadhana thus in an intermediate stage between life ...
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