Death
The kisan are well aware of the death reality. They have ideal whosoever has born, will die definitely. They believe that death is caused by super-human power or evil spirits. Natural death during oldhood takes place for transformation of old body in to a new one. The souls of persons meeting death take rebirth according to deeds done in the life before death. But the souls of persons meeting premature death due to natural calamity, attack of evil spirits and suicide become Bhut-preta. They are evil spirits. They cause harm to pregnant and lactating woman and also to the newly delivered child.
The Kisan bury as well as cremate their dead. It depends upon the availability of the fuel wood in their environment. After buried or cremation ritual, the pollution period starts inn the families of lineage and clan. This pollution period continues for 9 days. It ends when all male members make purificatory shaving of head and beard. A feast for kins men is organized.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“for it is not so much to know the self
as to know it as it is known
by galaxy and cedar cone,
as if birth had never found it
and death could never end it:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
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the spirit bird of hope is freed for flying,
our cages of despair no longer keep us closed and life-denying.
The stone has rolled away and death cannot imprison!
O sing this Easter Day, for Jesus Christ has risen!”
—Shirley Erena Murray (20th century)
“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
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