Death Along the Ganges River | The Story of God
National Geographic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEOBW1PvMqo

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0:03 bodies have been cremated on the banks of the river ganes for hundreds of years bathed in the waters of their holy River wrapped in linen and placed on a
0:15 wooden P the dead are consumed by Flame Swami Barista a monk and a doctor is my guide to death and the afterlife in Hinduism but the one place he can't
0:30 take me is The Cremation ground itself okay this is the holiest crematorium correct in the holiest city on the holiest river right in the world
0:44 right okay can anybody come and watch in a way yes but from far it is not proper to go there and watch from far you can watch from far but you can't come to the
0:58 crematorium right uh it's a secr place only [Music] MERS you can however get very close to a
1:13 body before it's burned MERS carry them down this Lane to the ganes all day long 7 days a week in barasi life and death mangle freely
1:28 [Music] so swamy I see these these funerals we've seen two or three pass by and the people
1:37 following they seem to be joyously chanting rather than sadly wailing why is that they are facilitating the Soul's Journey further
1:51 and in a way it's a matter of uh Joy one grief is there having lost the near one yeah but that person has moved on to a better way of getting on with his or her
2:07 life