online booking asthivisarjan in kasi varanasi
Why Do we Immerse ashes or asthi of dead person in rivers? Where to immerse ashes or asthi of a dead person? Why the last rites?
When I read in newspapers about, ex cricket captain
of Australia Steve Waugh Visit
Varanasi for Asthi Visarjan or ashes immersion of his deceased friend Brian
Rudd, the questions why asthi visarjan also why at kasi or in river Ganga
started coming to my mind. Being a non-Hindu, before death, Brian rudd took a
promise from his friend steve Waugh, that he will immerse his ashes at holy
river Ganga at Kasi. Mr. Steve Waugh fulfilled his friend’s last wishes. But I
started to find out answers to my questions.
I happened to visit a website www.asthivisarjan.org , a website started by group of priests from Bangalore and Kasi , which serves those who have lost their loved ones and interested to immerse ashes of dead person, in Holy river Ganga at aksi as per scripts.
The service can be booked online and videos, flowers
used in ashes pooja and offering (prasadam) will be delivered at doorstep of
those booked. They are using technology wisely. But for your surprise the
service is very very cheap or affordable. You can send ashes by courier to
their office and they do rest or you can visit kasi yourself. They help you
with all other requirements.
The website statement attracted me more than
anything “Asthi Visarjan
/chithabhasma visarjana or ashes immersion in holy river Ganga is way of
attaining moksha /salvation for dead person. Our priest at Varanasi performs
Asthi Pujan and visarjan, on Ganga ghat, as per Hindu scripts/rituals on behalf
of you.”
For a long time, you may be questioning with
yourself, After all, why the dead body is cremated? According to the scriptures,
the religion I belong to, is the custom of burning a dead body, but not to bury
it. Therefore, there is a question in mind that why do we perform a ritual like
funeral?
The purpose of ashes immersion?
And if you are also thinking, why do we immerse the
remaining ashes of the body in the Ganges, the holy river? Even after the
relation between the one who is no longer in this world, we have been attached
to him somewhere along with him. Therefore, sometimes it comes to mind that
after their departure; perhaps their burnt ashes are one of their last signs.
Why cannot we keep bones?
If even after immersion in the river, does it serve
any purpose? Immediately, a thought
passes in mind, the custom is a custom ... which we have to follow. Our culture
teaches us a lesson to implement classical things in life. But while looking at
the answer to my questions, suddenly I stopped on a story.
one story
In my desire to answer, I heard a story that made
me look at it as a lamp in the dark. This story is of a very ancient man who
was quite unkind. He did not do any good work throughout his life or he wanted
to do it.
Ruthless person
He bothers many people including his family
members. Perhaps the virtue had no meaning in his life, so he only earned sin.
One day he suddenly went to a nearby forest where he became a victim of a
tiger.
The soul arrived in Yalamok
Immediately after his death, some servants of Yama
Raja reached there to take his soul and went directly to Yamalok. Now there was
something left, its dead body which ate to the extent the tiger had eaten, but
the remaining part made the food of other small animals.
Organisms made their food
Meanwhile, some flying creatures also approached
that dead body in search of food. Suddenly a creature flew into the sky hiding
one piece of bone from other creatures, but the second creature ran right after
it and both of them struggled to get a piece of the bone.
Chances of getting hell
Meanwhile, the scene of Yamalok was something
else. There was an account of the sins of that person by Chitragupta, minister
of Yamraaj. Chitragupta was giving the details of the sins of one person to
Yamraj, on the basis of which he was expected to get different hell.
But what happened ..,
Then suddenly, on the earth, where the two bodies
were fighting for the body of the dead body of the person, suddenly that bone
fell from their mouth and straightened into the Ganges River. Once the bone
became sacred in the river Ganges, all the sins of that person were washed
away.
Such a freedom from all sins
And the punishment for Hell that he got was
forgiven. The river Ganges which came out of Lord Shiva's hair and came to
Earth, its purity is made only by joining Shiva's name. Therefore, the most
revered river in the earth is only the Ganges, in which the belief that all
sins become free from bathing.
Purity of river Ganges
Although not only the story, but also in some of
the great texts of Hindu religion, the narratives of ashes immersion have been
found. In Shankh Smriti and Karma Purana, it is auspicious to immerse the ashes
in the Ganga River. It has been the
importance of immersing the ashes by
generations which reflects the purity of this river.
Other rivers also
In addition to Hinduism, ashes is immersed in Sikh
religion, but it is not necessary that it is in the river Ganges. According to
scriptures, any holy river is ideal for
it. But in the scriptures, especially the ashes immersion has been connected to
the Ganges River.
Kasi or Varanasi
In the Hindu religious places like kasi , etc.,
the Ganga is inhabited, where ashes is immersed from the time unknown. It is
believed that the ashes of human beings remain in the river Ganges for years.
The Ganges River gradually eliminates the sin of man through those ashes and
opens a new path to the soul associated with it.
What is the scientific form?
Human beings and rivers are also seems attached
scientifically. It is said that the ashes of a man flowing in the river vary
from time to time, which makes the place associated with the river somewhere
fertile.
Now coming back to the website asthivisarjan.org ,
I mneioned at the beginning, asthivisarjan.org , they offer two services, either
you can visit kasi with deceased persons ashes and perform asthi pooja and visarjan
yourself as guided by priest or you can courier them ashes, they will perform
pooja & visarjan and send you offering (Prasad), basil (tulasi) used in
asthi pooja to your home. If customers are from anywhere in India, they collect
ashes from their place , Non-Indian
customers have to send ashes by courier to their office address at Kasi.
If you book asthi visarjan online, they will do Asthi Visarjan by priest/pundit on behalf of
you in holy river Ganga at Kasi / Varanasi. The service includes Pick up of
package (small quantity of ashes packed) from your place, package courier to Varanasi, Asthi
Pooja at Ganga Ghat, Immersion of Asthi in Holy Ganges River , performing Shradh
of ancestors’ or deceased family member Brahman Bhojan after performance they
will send whatsapp video to your Mobile phone. They will send prasad/pitrusesham
(basil/tulasi used in asthi pooja ) to your place through courier. The service
cost includes All pooja items and courier charges and cost you Rs. 3600/-.
There is also premium service which cost you Rs. 5600/- including all above
mentioned service they will give Vastra daanam (clothe to brahman/priest-
learned one) & one day Siddha( raw food items like rice, cereals, wheat,
ghee, etc) to priest for him and his family (as 5 family members of priest)
If anybody
interested to do ashes/ asthi or in south they call it as chitabhasma visarjan,
visit asthivisarjan.org website, book desired service,
While filling the
details, please enter your mobile no. correctly. After entering all details and
payment, you receive a manifest/courier airway bill to your mobile in whatsapp
and email ID. Take a print out. Paste it on the packed ashes cover. No need to
write anything else on the cover.
Collect the small
amount of cremated remains (Asthi/Ashes) of deceased person and put it in
cotton cloth. wrap it in plastic
cover. Seal it properly. If feasible
send a passport or post card size photo of the deceased person along with it.
Also in a white
paper, write following details in kannada/English/hindi. (These details will be
required during Asthi visarjan procedure). full Name and Gotra of Departed
Soul/deceased person, Married or unmarried, male or female, Name of father and
grandfather if departed soul was male, Name of mother in law and great mother
in law if departed soul was married female, Name
of mother and grandmother if departed soul was unmarried female, Age at which She/he Died, Date and Time
of death, Name of family member on whose behalf Pooja is to be performed and
relation with deceased person.
put all (Asthi packed in a plastic cover + deceased
persons small size photo + details written in awhite paper) in envelope/ paper cover.
If you are residing
outside India, courier the same to their Varansi address. If you are residing
at India, Logistic partner/ courier boy from website , collects from your
address, which you had entered while booking. before coming to collect, hecourier
boy will call you. After it received at Kasi.
you will receive sms in your mobile. Normally it will take 4-5 working
days from any part of India. From outside India, it may take 75-7 days.
They will send sms to your mobile about the
time and date, about performing the
asthi visarjan. Their priest performs Asthi Visrajan at River Ganga as per
shaastra/script.
They will send the video of two-three minutes to
your mobile number through whatsapp. Also you will receive in 5 working days,
the tulasi (basil)/flowers used while visarjan, vibhuti from Lord Vishvanth
temple of Kasi and photo of the deceased person (if you have sent).
The whole process is automated. you can make payment through most secured
payment gateway paypal and payu money by debit/credit card, to book the service.
Or you can pay through paytm wallet through website.
Now some people may
be having a question, whether they can immerse ashes in the near by river and
also send to them. Yes. You can send
some portion of the ashes to them and you can also do visarjan at your
convenient place.
Now the basic
question, how do I confirm whether they have performed Asthi Visarjan?. They
will send video to your mobile through whatsapp. In the video , you can watch
the photo of the deceased person and details written by you. Also the website is started by group of
priests, who are serving the community from generations. Really you can trust
them.
Another question
may pop in your mind, Some people told you asthi visarjan has to be performed
on 3rd day. In a holy place like Kasi , there is no any restriction.
Some people do visarjan even after months. Australian cricket ex captain did the visarjan of asthi of his deceased friend
after 4 months.
The website also
arranges for guide, priest, food & accommodation to the people who are
interested to visit kasi themselves and perform themselves. Same service can be
booked by website.
Through the same
website asthivisarjan.org , you can perform shraddha (annual ritual in memory
of deceased loved ones) both remotely (without your presence) – online or you
can visit the kasi to perform the same. They also offer pinda pradanam at Gaya
both in your presence or you can book online and the priest perform on behalf
of you.
Now the question coming to mind is why pindapradanm? yes you can book pinda pradanam online through website asthivisarjan.org. Why only at Gaya?, I will try to answer some time in future.
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