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If, taking into consideration your unique situation someone suggests that you perform your last rites during your lifetime, it might sound sacrilegious or downright blasphemous. Why not, for who wants to be considered 'dead' though alive? Well, one would not readily opt for it because such an alternative option shakes the age-old belief that liberation is not determined by extreme unction with the holy waters of the Ganges and the rites and rituals meant to be performed by one's son or next in close male kin. Each of the several samskaras have their respective significance and ought to be performed with all sincerity and sanctity for the segment of life it is meant to be. No rites and rituals meant for a particular stage of life can be performed for another stage of life for it is not meant nor should it be performed prior to the stage of life for which it has been prescribed in the sacred shashtras. Hence rites and rituals meant to be performed after death should not be performed prior to one's death. In case one resorts to such an action while living, there's a typical Indian tension expressed in the interrogation, "Log kya kahenge? (What shall the people say?) Performance of such a ritual might brand the performer insane or imbecile or iconoclast or one indulging in black magic or tantra-shastra and therefore not fit to be a member of society. In precise, it is widely believed that performance of death-rituals prior to actual death are apparently meaningless in determining liberation of the Soul from the cycles of birth-death and the fruits of karmas.

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<blockquote data-quote="prasad1" data-source="post: 440682" data-attributes="member: 17510">If, taking into consideration your unique situation someone suggests that you perform your last rites during your lifetime, it might sound sacrilegious or downright blasphemous. Why not, for who wants to be considered &#039;dead&#039; though alive? Well, one would not readily opt for it because such an alternative option shakes the age-old belief that liberation is not determined by extreme unction with the holy waters of the Ganges and the rites and rituals meant to be performed by one&#039;s son or next in close male kin. Each of the several samskaras have their respective significance and ought to be performed with all sincerity and sanctity for the segment of life it is meant to be. No rites and rituals meant for a particular stage of life can be performed for another stage of life for it is not meant nor should it be performed prior to the stage of life for which it has been prescribed in the sacred shashtras. Hence rites and rituals meant to be performed after death should not be performed prior to one&#039;s death. In case one resorts to such an action while living, there&#039;s a typical Indian tension expressed in the interrogation, &quot;Log kya kahenge? (What shall the people say?) Performance of such a ritual might brand the performer insane or imbecile or iconoclast or one indulging in black magic or tantra-shastra and therefore not fit to be a member of society. In precise, it is widely believed that performance of death-rituals prior to actual death are apparently meaningless in determining liberation of the <a href="http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/soul/soul" target="_blank">Soul</a> from the cycles of birth-death and the fruits of karmas.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/you-can-perform-your-last-rites-yourself[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prasad1, post: 440682, member: 17510"] If, taking into consideration your unique situation someone suggests that you perform your last rites during your lifetime, it might sound sacrilegious or downright blasphemous. Why not, for who wants to be considered 'dead' though alive? Well, one would not readily opt for it because such an alternative option shakes the age-old belief that liberation is not determined by extreme unction with the holy waters of the Ganges and the rites and rituals meant to be performed by one's son or next in close male kin. Each of the several samskaras have their respective significance and ought to be performed with all sincerity and sanctity for the segment of life it is meant to be. No rites and rituals meant for a particular stage of life can be performed for another stage of life for it is not meant nor should it be performed prior to the stage of life for which it has been prescribed in the sacred shashtras. Hence rites and rituals meant to be performed after death should not be performed prior to one's death. In case one resorts to such an action while living, there's a typical Indian tension expressed in the interrogation, "Log kya kahenge? (What shall the people say?) Performance of such a ritual might brand the performer insane or imbecile or iconoclast or one indulging in black magic or tantra-shastra and therefore not fit to be a member of society. In precise, it is widely believed that performance of death-rituals prior to actual death are apparently meaningless in determining liberation of the [URL='http://www.speakingtree.in/public/topics/soul/soul']Soul[/URL] from the cycles of birth-death and the fruits of karmas. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/you-can-perform-your-last-rites-yourself[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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