Sati

I bet it is with some groups.

I think the practice is called suttee, S-U-T-T-E-E. It's where if a husband dies, the wife also is put on the funeral pyre.

Oh, gosh.

Mm-hmm.

This was circa 1774, and the practice of sati was common in India.

For those who are not aware of what a sati is, here's a quick description.

Sati is an ancient Hindi tradition where a widow would throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre and slowly burn to death.

Thankfully, it's outlawed in India.

Sati symbolized closure to a marriage.

Initially, it was a voluntary act in which a woman followed her husband to the afterlife.

It was considered the greatest form of devotion of a wife towards her dead husband.

His behavior grew increasingly erratic until Dadaji revealed a long-kept family secret.

And we, if we can, if God would be so kind, we are to put a stop to it.

Why did William Carey, when he went to India as a missionary, why did he insist on putting a stop, politically putting a stop to Sati, the widow burning? Whenever a man would die, they threw her unwilling widow on the fire and burned her alive.

Why did he do that if our enemy is none of this world? because there are material, physical, political consequences to the spiritual war that we are in.

That is describing spiritual powers, the devil and his minions and their lies.

Sita, whose love found its richest expression in the lifelong farewell that made her husband the ideal king.

Sati, who died rather than to hear a word against Siva, even from her own father.

And Uma, realizing that her love was given in vain, yet pursuing the more eagerly the chosen path.

Be like Savitri was her father's blessing, as he bade her the bridal farewell, and Savitri, the Alcestis of Indian story, was that maiden who followed even death till she won back her husband's life.

How large an element of Hinduism is the folklore of the country? To the student who is looking for this, it appears to be past all computing.

The Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas are, to a great extent, the outpouring of passionate fancy in local interpretation.

In the story of Sati, the perfect wife, who can miss the significance of the fifty-two places in which fragments of the smitten body fall? And one finger fell in Calcutta, and that is still the Kali Ghat.

And the tongue fell at Kangra, Jawalamuktu, in the north Punjab, and appears to this day as licking tongues of fire from underneath the ground.

Hmm.

-Malhar Rao Holkar, who didn't allow her to commit Sati.

Uh, and-

She's there in one, one of the books.

He was unified with Ptah, and is often named in the 19th dynasty.

Sati was a goddess of the Cataract region, similar to Hathor, with cow's horns.

She is called queen of the gods, and seems to have been the great deity of a frontier tribe.

Anket was the goddess of the Cataract island of Sahel, and is figured wearing a high crown of feathers.

Sita, whose love found its richest expression in the lifelong farewell that made her husband the ideal king.

Sati, who died rather than to hear a word against Siva, even from her own father.

And Uma, realizing that her love was given in vain, yet pursuing the more eagerly the chosen path.

Be like Savitri was her father's blessing, as he bade her the bridal farewell, and Savitri, the Alcestis of Indian story, was that maiden who followed even death till she won back her husband's life.

How large an element of Hinduism is the folklore of the country? To the student who is looking for this, it appears to be past all computing.

The Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas are, to a great extent, the outpouring of passionate fancy in local interpretation.

In the story of Sati, the perfect wife, who can miss the significance of the fifty-two places in which fragments of the smitten body fall? And one finger fell in Calcutta, and that is still the Kali Ghat.

And the tongue fell at Kangra, Jwalamukhi, in the North Punjab, and appears to this day as licking tongues of fire from underneath the ground.