so if he dies, then the women with love and attachment on him she uses to perform sati. Travellers who observed our traditions wrote in their travelogues that our women are so emotional and love towards her husband and they were taught to love her husband. We Indians firmly believe life after death. So the couple go around 7 times ensuring that nothing can divide their relationship. The only number which cannot divide 360 degrees is 7. This relation is up to the next 7 rebirths. So in our marriage rituals, the couple circumambulates 7 times around the fire circle. If suppose if she shows 4 that means she will commit sati another 3 times. The travellers who saw sati saw women while performing sati they indicate fingers. ![]() It means wife is equal to her husband and she is the soul of her husband. If we see images of artha nareeshwar shiva has given his entire half place to lord Parvathi. Generally, our culture says life partner is half of her husband and she is having equal priority in a family. Here in india the marriage tradition marriage is a sacrament not a contract. In the 18th century Thanjavur a book stree dharma paddati written by triyambaka pandit threat to Hinduism by islam and missionaries Europeans.He told how to preserve threats he recommended way of salvation in a troubled scenario to protect their chastity, but the option of leading aesthetic life is always openĪncient religion legal texts mentioned austere life for women. Late medieval period smrithis till time had carried no instruction on methods of sati ,rituals. Some scholars medhatithi compared sati practice as black magic. Vyas Smriti, Kalidas, court poet of harsha kadambari he condemns of sati (banabatta) Vishnu smrithi says a good wife, who perseveres in a chaste life after the death of her lord, will go to heaven like (perpetual) students, even though she has no son. Yajnavalkya describes wives were gifts of gods and strict rules for widow bit, not self-immolation. Manu describes wives as worthy of being worshipped that lamps lit the households and manu also says the wife is legal heir of the husband property after his death. Orientalists like HH Wilson also never told that sati system was mentioned in Hindu scriptures.ĭharma sutras or smrithis mentioned the duties of a wife but do not recommend sati pratha Kautilya Artha sastra did not refer to sati funeral or he never mentioned any instances. Scriptures and scholars views on sati sahagamana. In Devi Bhagavatham also some scriptures mentioned abt sati practice. They are some exceptions if the women have children or if she is pregnant she must avoid this practice. In garuda Purana 4th chapter verses 90 to 98 mention abt sati. That can happen only with the fire on inner knowledge and gyan marg So our culture says the process of converting our sexual desire, energy into spiritual desires, energy is known as sati. In ancient days remarriage is not there and loyalty towards the husband. That sati daha pratha in india is not a religious obligation. The experts of dharma Sastra condemned this distortion. So the Hindu bashers deliberately misinterpreted that sati tradition is a religious obligation.īut the above scripture is not saying like that. The last word agre (earlier) was replaced with word Agni (fire) in this hymn. ![]() It tells the widow to sit next to her husband’s dead body and moisten your eyes with ghee and get up to resume your place in the world. ![]() The hymn was used by critics to propagate that sati was mentioned in our scriptures. It is important Funeral hymn is from rigveda 10.18.7. No the actual meaning mentioned below from rigveda. Was sati (suttee) practice a religious obligation mentioned in ancient texts?ĭoes sati pratha have its origin in the Vedas? Sati practice – Striking historical facts Let us know the authentic historical facts one by one to burst the myths. Pyre meaning – A heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony. If we define actually what is sati? means,it is a widow burning herself to death on husband pyre. So if we analyze the above great things, Do you think our culture encourages sati practice or satidaha pratha, like forcing her to enter into the fire of her husband’s pyre. So here we compare every emotion as a mother (females goddess). For food we worship Sri Annapurna Devi and for wealth, we worship lord Laxmi Devi and for education and wisdom we worship lord Saraswathi Devi and for water, we worship rivers and worshipping earth we compare with bhoodevi and finally motherland we Indian worship Bharat Mata. Our Indian culture has given at most value and status to women. This article is about historical facts about sati practice in our ancient days.
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