Re: Death in Hinduism?
Pranam Mradam, sorry to hear about your loss
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Eastern Mind
Vannakkam: Hindus avoid going to temples for 31 days. That would be the most important one for you to follow.
Aum Namasivaya
EM by this you mean the Sutak that makes the affected family to observe certain rules. there are different rule pertaining to different people. Garud puran lists them. For someone from immediate father side (sa pinda) it could be any thing from 10 to 30/40 days depending on ones varna. for some just a day and a bath would purify. if one comes in to contact with deceased at a funeral, a bath is a must. generally 12 and 13th days are important to perform Shraadh. this could go on for 12 month, as well as every year a day is allotted for shraadh.
Jai Shree Krishna
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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