Fire ritual using funeral pyre (on the final rites of a person)

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Namaste,

 

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Unfortunately, I am not familiar with rituals related to final rites.

 

I was told that a homam like fire ritual can be performed on a funeral pyre

by changing some standard aahutis and changing some mantras like

" kravyaadamagnim " . For example, " kravyaada " form of Agni is requested to

leave in that Veda mantra. But it is that form of Agni, which will consume

the corpse and carry the person. So that Veda mantra is inappropriate when

doing a fire ritual using funeral pyre.

 

I was told that a Chandi homam can be performed on a funeral pyre with some

small changes and know someone who actually did it.

 

However, if one's conditioned mind has ANY discomfort with that idea and

cannot respectfully and humbly visualize the divine Mother coming in that

fire, there is no point in doing such a ritual. When you call a deity into

an idol or fire and worship, you should be able to imagine that deity in

that object. If an object is impure and inappropriate for a deity's entry in

one's mind, one should not call that deity into that object.

 

As I was not interested, I did not find out details about changes to homam

procedure when using funeral pyre. But there are methods given in shastras.

The bottomline is that your pandit may have known what he was doing and

doing something quite appropriate.

 

Best regards,

Narasimha

 

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> sir

> i am <deleted> from indore india

> sir, can you suggest me literature to find the proper ways to perform

> the final ritual of a person as called the " Daah sanskar or antim

> sanskar "

> few days back i went to a cremation and there the pundit used the chita

> as somekind of homam kund and performed ahutis with ghee in it chanting

> mantras like " somay swaha " and 'yamay swaha "

> I am not sure what he was doing was right or not but i had a feeling

> that it was not shastrokta vidhi.

> kindly guide me as to where i could find the material on the same.

> thanks