Cremation

Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla


Cremation
“Oh my son, my son, oh my son,
Oh mother, are you calling me?
Yes, my son.
Mother, you died a week ago.
How can you call me?
My son, yes, I died, but I am still burning in your woods.
They are not yet burnt me
My mother, what about my father?
My son, your father is still burning in the fire.
Oh, my mom, I can’t believe it.
Yes, my son, I, and we.
But you are burning us.
We want to die peacefully.
We want to have peace of mind after our death.
But your cremation is burning us for millions of years.
My son, why are you creaming us?
Is it your gift to your parents?
Mother, It is our culture.
Oh, mother, it is our million years of Sanathana Dharma.
Oh my mother, how can you question our cremation?
My son, trillions of souls are burning in the fire here.
In cremation, no dead body is at peace.
We are all burning, burning, burning for millions of years.
My mother, this is our way of life after death.
My son, don’t burn anyone.
Bury them.
Everybody needs honour.
A dead body needs respect.
A dead body needs peace of mind.
Burning a dead body is not an honour.
My son, burning the dead is not a sign of respect.
My son, burning a dead body is a crime.
I am burning, burning, burning.
Your father is burning, burning, burning.
Your forefathers are burning, burning, burning.
Your foremothers are burning, burning, burning for millions of years, my son.
Bury your next dead son.
Don’t go by age-old honour killings, my son.
Cremation is a crime, my son.
It is a brutal crime against a human being, my son.
Cremation is a crime against humanity, my son.
Cremation is the double murder of my dead body, my son.
We can’t bear millions of years of burning in fire, my son.
Change my son, change my son, change your religious rituals, my son.
Don't be swayed by ancient brutal crimes, my son.
Allow daughters to bury their parents' bodies, my son.
My son, daughters and sons are equal.
Stop cremation, my son.
My son, bury the next dead body.
I want respect, my son.
I want honour, my son.
I want peace of mind after our dead son.
Respect me after my death, my son.
Burring me is an honour, my son.
Burring me is respecting my son. "

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Comments1

  • 🐤s.zaynab.kamoonpuri🌷🐦😽

    This is such a brave honest criticism of a ritual and custom that seems so painful to look at, like the body is being roasted like barbeque, no wonder you too find it disrespectful as its like burning in man made hellfire, burning is the worst punishment like ahh.
    I wouldn't dare to openly criticise a religious practice so I'm glad that you being a hindu could critique it for us, both on emotional and rational level.
    Burial is civilised respect
    Kudos for a great, heartwarming, admirable poem.

    • Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla

      Thank you for your solidarity. We should start our social reformation by reforming religious fanatacism of any religious ideology or way of life of those barberian ideologies. Politically correct ideologies are a danger to upholding any truth. Let us write the truth. Thank you once more for your support against religious fanaticism.

      • 🐤s.zaynab.kamoonpuri🌷🐦😽

        I believe extremism and fanticism is not part of religion but rather added to it externally, esp religion as i know it and practice.



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