A trip to the Burning Ghats
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Description: Fragment from "The Caves and Jungles of Hindustan", by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
In the vicinity of these cemeteries rise the Hindu ghâts . There is really something grand in this ritual of burning the dead --- and the burning of the living in the not too distant past, but only in theory and not in practice. Witnessing this ceremony, and seeing how in the course of an hour or so after death nothing remains of the body but a few handfuls of ashes which an initiated Brâthmana, performing the rites of death, scatters then and there to the four winds of heaven over the river, so that they will be forever mingled with the sacred waters, the spectator is struck with the deep philosophy underlying the fundamental idea of this rite.
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| Description: | A trip to the Burning Ghats, 1900, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
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| Date | Creation Date: 1997-08-01T04:00:00Z Expiry Date: 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z |