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Foods prepared by the immediate family of the deceased should not be shared with others during these 10 days. Pinda balls made of barley flour are offered to a photo of the departed family member decorated with flowers facing south. The merit that one earns by bathing in Ganga is such that the like of it is incapable of being earned through the acquisition of sons or wealth or the performance of meritorious acts. They who wish to make their birth, life, and learning fruitful should repair to Ganga and gratify the pitris and the Devas by offering them oblations of water. By seeing, touching, and drinking the waters of Ganga, or even by praising Ganga, hundreds and thousands of sinful men became cleansed of all their sins. By hearing of Ganga, by wishing to repair to that river, by drinking its waters, by touching its waters, and by bathing in them a person rescues both his paternal and maternal races. By holding that sacred stream, touching it, and bathing in its waters, one rescues one’s ancestors to the seventh generation, one’s descendants to the seventh generation, as also other ancestors and descendants. It is not recommended to keep a relative’s ashes around the home indefinitely.įrom Anushasana Parva of the MahaBharata, Bhishma tells Yudhishthira: “Those creatures whose bodies have been sprinkled with the sacred waters of Bhagirathi (Ganga Ji) or whose bones have been laid in the channel of that sacred stream, do not fall away from heaven at any time.
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