TRADITIONAL HINDU CREMATIONS ARE NOT FOR THE MEEK by Hari Sreenivasan (PBS Newshour) I silently stand witness. A few minutes ago, he was cold. A few days ago he was warm. Now he is on fire. Traditional Hindu cremations are not for the meek. They arent cold impersonal, sterile events, where cardboard boxes carrying a body are slid into electronically-regulated, temperature-controlled blast furnaces sealed behind metal doors, they are very personal, and corporeal, physical and metaphysical. They force you to confront and examine a balance between the science you hold to be true, and the faith that holds you to be true, or false. Did my father cease to be, when his neural activity ended, just before I received that phone call? Or was there a soul, and was his soul just beginning another leg of its journey, waiting for me to free it from the shackles of this body? Read more at ompower/sreeni/
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:12:00 +0000
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