Sati - Should woman die on husband's pyre?

Some people are giving fake translations from Atharva veda by saying that, 3. A virtuous woman is one who dies on the funeral pyre of her dead husband and avails the privilege of serving her husband in the other world. (Atharva Veda 18-3-1)


I went through the Atharva veda. Here are the sanskrit shloka with their meanings.


Atharva veda - 18-3-1
Eeyam Naari Patilokam Vranana ni padyatt oop tva matarya pretam
dharmam puranmanupalyanti tasyai prajam dravidam ceh dehi
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yeh naari patikul ke hith ki abhilasha karti hui swadharm ka nirvah karne hetu aayi hai. Dharma mei neerat iss naari ke liye sansaar mei putra, pautradi tatha dhan-sampada pradan kare.
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The meaning of this shloka is that once a husband dies, his wife is considered as the owner of his family and wealth. No one it states that a wife should be burnt of a husband's pyre !!


Atharva veda - 18-3-2
uddisharva naaryabhi jeevlokam gatasumetmup shesh ehi
hastagrabhasya didhishostvedam patyurjanitvambhi sam babhoot
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Oh woman, ur husband has already died and now u must give up the attachment. Leave his body and now walk towards the worldly affairs , i.e. ur family. Your beloved ones i.e. ur children and ur grandchildren will protect u after the demise of ur husband. Stay near them only.
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This shows that a woman should give up the attachment she had with the body of her husband, who is now dead and she would stay under the protection of her children, who're a part of her family.


Atharva veda - 18-3-3
apyasham yuvatim neeyamanaam jeevaam mretebhaya parineeyamaanaam
andhen yat tamsa pravartaseet prakto apachimanayam datenaam
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We've seen the young woman who was following the funeral of her dead husband towards the graveyard, she turned back towards her home. This woman was deeply disturbed by the darkness of the grief.
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this shloka shows that women used to take part in the final rites of her husband. All these shlokas show that there is no mention of sati pratha in atharva veda, and on the contrary, they support the life of the wife after her husband's demise.


As i've shown in my previous posts what the vedas talk about widows.... THEY'RE NOT TO BE BURNT....


However, when the muslim invaders started looting india... they, killed millions of innocent hindus.... looted their homes, shops and temples.... these muslim invaders had lust for hindu women and used to kidnap them to rape them and keep them in their harem....


To save their honour, the women preferred to die.... Often the hindu rulers, died with their army, and their women committed Sati, to save their honour....


these lusty muslim invaders, never even spared the corpses of dead hindu women to satisfy their lust and hence, the hindu women preferred to burn their bodies, rather than let these muslim invaders get their corpses.


Hence, this practice was started..... It should have been banned after the muslim rule ended, but unfortunately, it was attached to religion.... by some ignorant people and became mandatory.


HUSBAND OF A HINDU WOMAN DIES, SHE AS PER THE RELIGION HAS TO BURN HERSELF ON THE PYRE OF HER HUSBAND.its called sati


Sati pratha is NOT a Hindu tradition. There is no mention or example of Sati in any old Hindu scriptures.
When Raja Dashrath dies in Ramayana, none of his queens perform Sati act.
In Mahabharata, many warriors died in the war, but there is no mention of Sati act anywhere.


Sati act gained tremendous momentum during Mogul wars with Rajputs, where Muslim invaders raped Rajput women, to save their honor, the brave Rajput women prefer to die with their warrior husbands, rather than becoming victims of rape by Muslim Mogul monsters.
Because Sati is not a general Hindu tradition, that is why Raja Ram Mohan Rai was able to ban the Sati act by law, in India.
The Sati pratha did not exist in all parts of India, it gained momentum among Rajputs for the reason mentioned above.

Do Indians Let History Repeat Itself ? (Must Read)

By Anand Mishra ‘Abhay’

There is a proverb: ‘History repeats itself’. This proverb is well known and often quoted by, intellectuals, but nobody has ever taken any lesson from it while it’s message is quite vivid i.e. don’t repeat those follies or blunders, which you have committed in the past, in order to make your not only present but future also, bright, prosperous and safe. But we find that this proverb remains just a quotable quote not to be acted upon. That is why we suffered again and again in the past and still suffer every day.
In spite of this we appear to be adamant not to deviate from the wrong path that we had once chosen and continue to tread the same till now. Does it not indicate that we are not wise enough, and perhaps have lost our inherent power to discriminate between right and wrong, good and bad, harmful and benificial? If it is not so then why are we shy of facing the facts standing erect before our eyes.
In this background let us peep into our history. This sacred land of our’s was first attacked by the army of Darius (Ist), the mighty emperor of Iran, then known as ‘Parasya Desh’, on our ‘Balaksha Pradesh’ (Baluchistan) border (now in Pakistan). But what happened to the invader? He was given a smashing defeat and it was so complete that only seven soldiers were left to tell that very tragic defeat to their emperor, and the defeat was so crushing and awful that the so powerful Emperor of Persia like Darius (Ist.) dared not to attack again. But what a pity, we are taught that the first invader was Alexander, the so-called ‘The Great’.

Let's Remember Swami Shraddhanand !

Let us remember Swami Shraddhanand on his 85th (December 23) Martyrdom Anniversary.Shame on Bharat's Selfish political parties who have forgotten the sacrifice of Swami Shraddhanand !

Introduction

Realising the psychology of Hindus about getting directionless if their leader directing them gets killed, the Hindu leaders are being killed by Hindu haters in a very systematic manner. 125 people from Sangh Parivar have been killed in the last some years in Kerala. Swami Laxmananand was killed in Orissa in 2008. Swami Shraddhanand was the first Hindu leader getting killed by the murderous tradition of the Hindu haters. He was killed by a fanatic Muslim by name Abdul Rashid on 23rd December 1926. Today is His 85th Martyrdom Anniversary.

Whole life having been spent nurturing faith in Veds and Vedic Dharma, He naming himself as Swami Sharaddhanand

Swami Shraddhanand alias Lala Munshiram, got initiated into Vānaprasthāshram (Third stage among the four stages of life, retired householder) at the age of 35 and He became Mahatma Munshiram. He established a Gurukul (A residential school system prevalent in ancient Bharat, where teaching on all areas of life, including spiritual practice was done by Gurus or Sages) at Kangari region near Haridwar in 1902. In the beginning His 2 sons, Harishchandra and Indra were His students and Mahatma Himself became the Acharya (Teacher). At present thousands of students are studying there and Gurukul Kangari is now an University. Munshiram served in Gurukul continuously for 15 years. Later in the year 1917, Mahatma Munshiram got initiated into Sanyāsāshram (The last among the four stages of life, namely, the stage of a renunciant). While speaking at the time of initiation ceremony, He had said that I will name myself. Since I have spent my whole life nurturing Veds and Vedic Dharma and will keep on doing the same in future, so I am naming Myself as Shraddhanand.

Veer Savarkar - A Legend

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

• The first political leader to daringly set Absolute Political Independence as India's goal (1900).
• The first Indian political leader to daringly perform a bonfire of foreign (English) clothes (1905).
• The first Indian to organize a revolutionary movement for India's Independence on an international level (1906).
• The first Indian law student who was not called to the English Bar despite having passed his examination and observed the necessary formalities, for his activities to seek India's freedom from the British (1909).
• The only Indian leader whose arrest in London caused legal difficulties for British Courts and whose case is still referred to in the interpretations of the Fugitive Offenders Act and the Habeas Corpus (Rex Vs Governor of Brixton Prison, ex-parte Savarkar)

Brave Jhansi Ki Rani and The Heroic death

"तभी अंग्रेज़ घुड़सवार वहाँ आ गए। एक ने पीछे से रानी के सिर पर प्रहार किया जिससे उनके सिर का दाहिना भाग कट गया और उनकी एक आँख बाहर निकल आयी। उसी समय दूसरे गोरे सैनिक ने संगीन से उनके हृदय पर वार कर दिया।"

 19 नवंबर, झांसी रानी लक्ष्मीबाई का जन्म दिन इंदिरा गाँधी के जन्म दिन की चकाचोंध में जाता है क्योंकि उसी दिन इंदिरा गाँधी का भी जन्म दिन होता है | हर समाचार पत्र में इंदिरा गाँधी जी को अभिवादन किया जाता है  लेकिन हमारी वीर झासी की रानी को नमन करने के लिए बहुत कम लोग आगे आते है |

झाँसी की रानी का परिचय : बचपन का नाम 'मणिकर्णिका' रखा गया परन्तु प्यार से मणिकर्णिका को 'मनु' पुकारा जाता था| अपनी माँ की मृत्यु हो जाने पर वह पिता के साथ बिठूर आ गई थीं। यहीं पर उन्होंने मल्लविद्या, घुड़सवारी और शस्त्रविद्याएँ सीखीं।

Missionary hand in Kudankulam Protest ?

"I demand an explanation from the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as to why his Secretary Mr. Pulok Chatterji, with the help of the Maharashtra Chief Minister Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, has entered into negotiations with the Catholic Church in Mumbai to help resolve the protests taking place against the Kudankulam Nuclear Plant. Does this mean that the Catholic Church is 
behind the agitation" - Dr. Subramanian Swamy

Much noise has been made over a nuclear reactor that was slated to operate out of Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. On the face of it, the protest appears to have been a simple clash between human safety and environmental interests on the one hand and energy and developmental concerns on the other hand. The local residents had been organised to implore the government to scrap the nuclear project in Kudankulam and to have it transferred to another location. But was the Kudankulam protest really as simple as that? A careful analysis reveals that there is something more than meets the eye.

Hidden side of The Iron Man, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

"We want the entire territory ... and battle for the whole of Kashmir.”
– Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, 23 July 1949.

Today 15 December , Death anniversary of  Shri Patel ji.
On this occasion this article will show you the hidden side of this True Son of Bharat Maata.

The man, who would have been the first Prime Minister of India, chose to accept Gandhi’s advice and remain happy to be Home Minister in Nehru’s cabinet. As history tells us, the Congress held a presidential election in the knowledge that its chosen leader would become India's head of government. Eleven Congress state units nominated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, while only the Working Committee suggested Nehru. Sensing that Nehru would not accept second place to Patel, Gandhi supported Nehru and asked Patel to withdraw, which he immediately did.

A man of highest personal integrity and a transparent public life, Sardar not only gave us an India without ulcers, but also had Lakshadwep integrated in time, which was eyed by Pakistan immediately after August 15,1947. He had the prudence to send Naval ships to the island, barely informed of the independence, and thwarted a Pakistani Navy attempt to seize the strategically located and almost an ‘out of sight’ island. Our naval ships had seen Pakistani Navy nearing Lakshadweep and had them returned.