My First HINDU Traditional Funeral 🇮🇳 Foreigner in INDIA Reaction 

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This method is the Vedic way of cremation. Actually it is more efficient than the way it happens in Varanasi with wood. But this method is very time consuming that's why they use wood now.

@@direwolf7491 I prefer this way over using wood 🪓 as it's better for Bhumi I believe. Maybe 🤔 I'm wrong but what do I know. Jai Bharat 🇮🇳🙏🏻🕉️!

@@direwolf7491 That is disputable

@@miloblackmetalhate No it's not I have witnessed both. Also scientifically the old method is more efficient.

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In north, on tenth day mundan and shanti karma is done but brahmbhoj is offered on 13th.

13 in odisha.

Nope mourning period changes in my place ( Thiruvallur ) It depends on the death date

Tamilnadu 11days bro

in chennai it's mostly half a day 👀 busy people 🤷‍♂️

yes definitely

Life and death are equal. Both are divine, hence Both are celebrated.

@@detectivesdelhi you guys are weird lol...how can you be happy on someones death...isnt it a bit--...you get my point?

@@reyan8943 We are neither happy nor sad when someone goes or comes. We don't live in binary of happiness or sadness, good or bad, God or Satan, man or woman, positive or negative. We celebrate because we accept, death is as respectful as birth. And yes, your forefathers were gems not uncivilized or barbarians.

@@reyan8943 don't generalize all indians thoughts by the guy above , its upto a human perspective whether he feels sad after someone dies or not . As far as general humans are concerned we indians also feel sad and sorrow when someone die lol

I mean I found the south one very different.from my one

@@sibasishdutta9009 we will send them happy here so they don't regret of leaving and we need to cry(even atmopshere make you cry a lot) to show last respect to him and to say good bey...

Not really... In some Hindus ( very few) they bury.

@@nileshjoshi4232 tribes probably

All hindhus dont burn their body some community burry the dead u can see it in bangalore hindhu burial grounds

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@_SAAGU_ Yes Bro everything is same But In North here we not Celebrate if the person who died in young age

Entire world is similar to what you guys do in South India. South India is the best place in the world. Stop showing ignorance about North India. If you don't know about North do research & if you don't wanna know about North then stop acting like a southie supremacist.

@@hellokaun3948 why BRAH??

@@user-dp4mp3sj9g Don't know bro but I think because of he didn't lived his whole life I never ask any one this question but if he/she is old enough then no problem.

Yes, thank you

Yes, In TamilNadu, the cow dung and sometimes wood is combined and the cold mud when applied acts like an oven and burns the entire corpse to ashes the next day morning, it takes like 8-10 hours for the entire corpse to turn to ash by this method. Even when the fuel (cow dung) is exhausted, the oven like setup ensures that the heat is retained and the corpse is burned down to ashes. Nowadays there is more electric cremation, so this way of cremation is slowly fading away.

Day or two???? You sure...

@@snehiljha1815 Yes ... sometimes even more than 2 days. In North India people generally go on the 3rd day to collect the remains .. and the first thing we need to do is spray water as there is still some smoldering coal bits from burnt wood ..

You have to cut lots of trees for wood. Cow dung is environmentally better.

@@Just_forfun9140 might be

@@Just_forfun9140 I'm from North but still agree with u buddy.. Is cow dung always used or it depends on the person, like if a person can afford costly woods? Do they still burn him under cow dung? (I'm just curious to know)..

I didn't aprove cremation using wood my dad passed away last month have to spend 8000 just for cremation what will poor people do

@@manunayak5536 ok u don't approve it but this is our tradition and we will follow it.

Eh.. Trishanku didn't ask to be suspended in the sky. He wanted to go to heaven with mortal body but he ended up suspended in the sky.

he said hinduu

@@reyan8943 actually no such thing either, but he said Indian Funeral vs American Funeral in the video, maybe my comment was flippant, but there really are way too many differences in traditions even among Hindus. There are some similarities, and some common threads like burning the body, etc., but there are so many differences that each sect follows that it makes it really hard to pin down as traditional.

@@gamertag8721 he wont learn so many types of funeral just for u

@@inrpicmax6541 and no one asked him to, no asked him to even learn of one... but he has a more open mind than that and wants to learn, and enlightening people is not a sin, but thoughtless comments do not add anything to a conversation or promote knowledge.

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In south also in kerala we use wood but nowadays funerals are done automatic funeral houses after the rituals

thank you

@@bjenks hope you are fine benjamin and i pray for your friend RIP 😔😔

Not brave, but irresponsible and disrespectful. Because he is White, he thinks he can just film any thing he wants to - including a funeral of a PoC. The grieving family probably were too nervous to tell him not to film their dead loved one. Then he puts it on RU-vid and monetizes it for his gain.

@@thewanderingsoul71 I partly agree with you, I love Ben's channel and personality, but I'd also recommend him to switch off ads on this video. (I believe it can be unintentional not to think about it, the income of this one episode will not effect his channel) On the other hand, as he mentioned, people took photos of the actual uncovered body and posted on Facebook, what sounds shocking for me too, but the family might take it as a way of respect and remembrance. Many famous people's funeral is broadcasted by TV channels as a sign of respect. Also, in Ben's video the body wasn't visible. I don't know, I don't judge, but pretty sure that Ben did not mean to be disrespectful at any way, and surely discussed it with the family. The other thing I want to react is the "white man" part of your comments. I am a white, Hungarian man who lives in London for 10 years now, and I am planning to move to India in the second part of this year, and I can't wait for it. I will not go there because my employer wants to send me there as an expat, or nothing like that. I will go there because during my years in London I had extraordinary positive experiences with Indian people and I became fascinated by their kindness, honesty and friendliness. Also the culture, the food, everything. It made me start watching hundreds of videos about India on RU-vid and those videos strengthened my feelings that I want to visit this amazing country with an open mind to settling down if that is possible. Trust me, I do not feel any sort of superiority at all as a white man, and I am sure that Ben is not that kind of person either. I know, there are some idiots, but those of us white people who want to spend an extended period of time in your beautiful country because of our own wish and love we have towards India (not because our boss or career requires it), none of us feel ourself "superiors" to Indians. I really, really hope and ask that if we ever meet, you and all Indians please do not treat me as "the big white"/"big western" man but with the exact same attitude as you do with your fellow Indians. I am not less and not more, I want to go there because I find your country and nation amazing and I can't wait to spend time there with you, Indians. And if I will ever misunderstand something or due to my different cultural background I will behave inappropriate (it can happen unintentionally), then please, please, remind me and tell me honestly what did I do wrong, so I can learn more about your culture and do not take the same mistake again. :)

In Tamil Nadu, it’s believed that the music with thappu and dancing is a form of spilling out the sorrow. When a death happens to an old person who has lived well it’s considered good death, then the drums and dance will be to celebrate the life the person had well lived and it’s like giving them a happy send off.

I've seen this drums and fireworks during funeral procession in Hyderabad too. I think it is a common practice in the South.

The reason is the ancestors and the close relatives in a different form take more priority than paying homage to God. The ceremonies of the deceased take more priority and everything else is a distraction...not because of negative energy. There is also a need to be aligned with the rest of the family so celebrations, religious festivals are all shelved off temporarily.