Does Sati Practise have origin in teachings of Veda ?

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or its just some kind of social evil that crept into vedic society ?

 

Please answer.

 

hare krishna

 

Your Servant Always

Sumeet.

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Hare Krishna!

 

During the marriage ceremony of one of her sisters,

Lord Shiva was not offered respect by Sati's father

Daksha Prajapati. As such Sati- wife of Lord Shiva,who

could not bear the insult- entered into the fire in

the Yajna arena, and the self-immolation was termed

after her!

 

In Vedic civilization, a woman entered into fire

willingly after the demise of her husbasnd.

When Moghul Kings and other Islamic Invaders attacked

in Rajasthan, queens showed their valor, fought

Moslems attackers, and used to enter into fire

willingly to self-immolate along with their husbands

rather than facing humiliation from the foreign

attackers.

 

The system became evil when young women were forced by

elderly Hindu family members and so called well

wishers against the wishes of women, whose husbands

passed away but those women did not want to

self-immolate. Raja Ram Mohan Rai helped British

Rulers in passing a law which declared it illegal to

burn a woman against her will.A Bill was passed some

200 years ago.

 

Hare Rama

Dasanudas

Dr. Prayag Narayan das Misra

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> or its just some kind of social evil that crept into

> vedic society ?

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> Please answer.

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> hare krishna

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> Your Servant Always

> Sumeet.

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[Guest guest]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, sumeet1981 wrote:

> or its just some kind of social evil that crept into vedic society ?

> Please answer.

 

It's mentioned in various places in the Srimad-bhagavatam, as in 1.13.58.

 

MDd

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Hare Krishna

 

Thank you Prayag Misra.

 

MDD,

 

What i actually want to know is that, is Sati pratha a "Vedic

principle" which is to be followed by hindu women ?

 

Are there rules laid down in dharma sastra or any other vedic sastra

that a hindu women must commit Sati after death of her husband ?

 

 

Your Servant Always,

Sumeet.

 

 

achintya, mpt@u... wrote:

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> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, sumeet1981 wrote:

> > or its just some kind of social evil that crept into vedic

society ?

> > Please answer.

>

> It's mentioned in various places in the Srimad-bhagavatam, as in

1.13.58.

>

> MDd

[Guest guest]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, sumeet1981 wrote:

> What i actually want to know is that, is Sati pratha a "Vedic

> principle" which is to be followed by hindu women ?

> Are there rules laid down in dharma sastra or any other vedic sastra

> that a hindu women must commit Sati after death of her husband ?

 

 

There are no such injunctions that I can think of.

 

 

Generally, Srila Prabhupada (or anyone who is genuinely self realized)

emphasizes the principle behind sati more than the traditional rite itself.

After all, what's the use or value of any ossified tradition, apart from the

profound spiritual inspiration that usually creates them? We each and all have

our religious obligations, and the sometimes astonishing degree to which our

predecessors were devoted to their own, can--and should--provide us with

tremendous inspiration. Bereft of such eternal worth, such rituals tend to be

empty, if not even obnoxious, and they thus become outdated, illegal, etc.

 

 

>From the sati rite we can get a glimpse of how seriously people used to take

their personal dharmas. Such commitment follows quite naturally from a more

sublime appreciation of dharma in general, one which is firmly grounded in Vedic

philosophy but too often absent (and perhaps even impossible) in modern

cultures. I think the true meaning of the word dharma can hardly be sensed

without understanding what deeper reality justifies its practice. Although

normative (which makes it perfectly acceptable to translate dharma as "duty"),

it is at the same time suprarational, in that any given duty embodies the whole

significance of the higher reality that orders the cosmos, though hidden from

ordinary experience and reason. In the Upanisads, it is called "rta," the

orderly coursing of that central reality from which every manifestation has

issued and which each one represents; thus the rule, or obligatory function, of

all individuals is given by their very being--to the extent th!

at they participate in this central reality. In this respect, one's dharma

cannot possibly be any extrinsic imposition, or the mere correspondence of a

specific proposition with some relative, independent result or aim; instead, it

is wholly defined by one’s mere existence, relative to one’s practical

recognition of ultimate reality. Given what we've heard or experienced about

how participation in dharma increasingly decays in Kaliyuga, I would guess that

a deeper sense of dharma, capable of inspiring the intensity of practice seen in

“sati,” was previously intuited naturally by many people, without much conscious

deliberation.

 

MDd

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Hare krsna.In MAHABHARATHA we have that famous

incident where in MADRI wife of pandu went as

sati,climbing husband's pyre.