When I went to india I went for funeral of one my relative to a hindu graveyard.I for the first time when i entered noticed instead of getting scared I was at peace I wonder why and I saw it was written in the graveyard where they burn the body that 'This is the Place Where Siddhars Lives" i dont know the exact translation but when done in hindi its "Ye siddar ka bhoomi hai" something like that. When I went and sat on the steps with others I somehow felt at peace I still ponder abut that.
I am a hindu, and I have heard about it a lot of times from people in our soceity (not only those having spiritual interest). Attending a funeral where the dead body of the close one is offered back to the five elements through burning, cultivates a profound realisation about life and death cycle, and an unmatched sense of detachment - which has a particular name - 'shamshan vairagya'. Shamshan/shmashan is the burning place, and vairagya means detachment.
Just to be sure that we are talking about the same thing, is it technically a 'graveyard'? because there is no 'grave' as per hindu rituals (except some rare exception).
This vairagya was recognized and sought for by yogis following certain methods. And there are lots of cases when such yogis sarted residing in such shamshan or very close to it.
why is it written like that in graveyard I wonder.
Posted - Oct 18 2011 : 09:03:33 AM
