Significance of Death Rituals (Shradh) | Secrets of death & afterlife Part 2

What is the purpose of performing Shradh? Why the head of a dead body is kept towards the south? Why are the last rites done by men and not women?

In this episode, the revered Aghori Guru, Guru Pashupati Ji answers these questions and more about Death rituals, journey of the soul, and Rebirth.

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Guru Pashupati Ji answers the following questions in this episode.

1. What is the purpose of performing Shradh?
2. Why the head of a dead body is kept towards the south?
3. Why is cremation not supposed to be done after sunset?
4. Why are the hands and the legs of a dead person tied up?
5. What is the significance of the ritual in which someone holds a pot on the shoulder and has to take anti-clockwise Pradakshina by the pyre and after it is holed thrice, it is dropped behind?
6. Why are the last rites always done by men and not women?
7. Why is the period of 12 to 13 marked as a mourning period where all the rituals are performed?
8. What is the significance of the Sutak Period?
9. Why married women consider it fortunate to die before their husband's.
10. Does performing rituals help the spirit transit faster than it normally would?
11. After cremation, why the ash is tied to the door and not brought inside the house?
12. Why milk and water is offered via a thread to the soul for ten days?
13. Why is the Kartha of the rituals not allowed to visit other houses for 10 days?
14. Why should Kartha fast or have a simple meal in those 10 days of rituals?
15. Why those who do rituals with Pinda are not allowed to touch anyone else until they take a bath?
16. Why it is advised to clean the entire house with Gomutra and put mustard seeds in the corners before starting regular Poojas after 13-day rituals?
17. Why lamps are not lit in the Pooja Room while the 13-day rituals are going on?
18. Why is it that during the final day of the ritual, objects like towels and clothes are offered to the spirit?
19. Why crows are chosen for offering Pindas?
20. Why some places like Varanasi, Nashik, and Bodh Gaya are chosen as preferred places for the last rituals?
21. How re-birth happens?
22. Who decides what form a soul takes in the next birth?

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