no thought some will do it or else I had already drafted but waiting to edit to release Let's see in next week sure You took the cue from mine on vanaprastha notes and done well; it is said in manu atharva rig etc scattered . KR IRS 7424
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 22:51, gopala krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sir, > > I was expecting a response from you. Probably you missed my posting. > > Gopalakrishnan > > ----- Forwarded message ----- > *From:* gopala krishnan <[email protected]> > *To:* Patty Thatha <[email protected]>; Kerala Iyer < > [email protected]>; Iyer <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, 6 April, 2024 at 07:59:56 am IST > *Subject:* CREMATION AND FOUR STAGES OF LIFE > > CREMATION AND FOUR STAGES OF LIFE > > Dear friends, > > While defining the four stages of life, the last two stages are vanaprastha > and Sanyasa. We have example of Kunthi along with Gandhari and > Dhritharashta going for Vanaprastha after a time Dharamaputhra started > ruling the country after the war, as told in the Mahabharatha. We know > during Vanaprastha, all those died. No anthyakarmas were performed by > Pandavas. > > I made a Google search about Antyakarmas > > When did cremation start in Hinduism? > > Early Cremations in India > > From the time of the Rig Veda, which contains passages possibly written > as far aback as 2000 B.C., Hindus have cremated the dead although small > children and ascetic were sometimes buried and low caste members sometimes > buried their own. > > What are the stages of life according to Vedas? > > The four asramas are: Brahmacharya (student), Gṛhastha (householder), > Vanaprastha (forest walker/forest dweller), and Sannyasa (renunciate). The > Asrama system is one facet of the Dharma concept in Hinduism. > > We know all Vedas were there already and codified by Veda vyasa in to > four- Rig, Yajur, Sama and Adharva. This was during Dwaparayuga. > > My doubt is antyakarmas are done to the deceased elders. The procedures > are told for it. But according to four stages of Hinduism the last two are > Vanaprastham and Sanyasam. If one goes for Vanaprastham, his children > cannot understand where he was at the time of death and cannot perform > anthyakarmas. > > So the antyakarmas were done only for those who did not proceed to > vanaprastha and had death before that. > > In kaliyuga, those who are going to Vanaprastha and Sanyasa are very > few. So we perform antheyshti for all the diseased. > > But how Anthyakarmas are performed for ascetics now? > > Can any learned member clarify about this aspect in brief paragraphs? > > Gopalakrishnan 6-4-24 > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoqOTreqgbto0%3D19RZJA_vtrF3ELBmLbLrP_250DpUvMEA%40mail.gmail.com.
