#GoElectric

No, This is Not about Electric Cars.

When someone in the family leaves the world, our established Vedic tradition suggest that the body should be confined to flames on a funeral pyre made of wood in open-air pit / platform. This is called ‘Anteyshti’ or ‘Antim-Sanskar’.

AryaSamaj2.0 requests you to educate and counsel a family in grief to adapt to electricity-based cremation instead of traditional wooden pyre. This is #GoElectric.

There was a time when natural resources were adequate to follow this practice. Even today, electric crematoriums are available in Metro cities only. Today, our society can not afford it and most take a short-cut in terms of material and religious requirements. Wood used in one cremation is equal to support enough books for a child for his entire schooling needs. In Western countries, cost of a good funeral runs into few lakhs and people ( or their children ) even take huge bank loans to support it.

Not only cremation but even the post-cremation traditions followed by us are in need of an overhaul. We must question, seek answers with an open mind and then arrive at our own conclusion. Like any tradition, there is nothing absolutely right and blatantly wrong in any practice that one follows. Finally, it is our own conscience, that would guide us to right path.