Sati In Hindu Essay

The term sati has wide ranges of definition depending on what language is spoken; in Hindu it means a village Mother goddess (satimata) who self-sacrificed her self on her husband’s funeral, the incarnation of goddess Parvati (wife of Shiva) and sati also means a virtuous woman, a woman bonded to her husband who will go where ever her husband goes and death is no exception. In the eyes of westerners, sati (spelled suttee) is a suicidal act where widows are burnt along with the corpse of her husband. But in Hindu, sati does not mean the ritual but the woman itself, a sati is a good woman, a woman who is completely devoted to her husband. Sati is a non-widow woman, and it is a way to avoid widowhood, because in Hindu the husband is considered
When her father insulted her husband Shiva refusing to include him in his sacrifice, the enraged Sati sacrifices herself in the fire. As she was much bonded with her husband and was loyal to him, but she later reincarnated as Parvati and the pair married again. So because of this, the people believe by burning the widow with her husband, she shows her duty as a wife, love and belief that they will be united together in future incarnation. After, a widow is sacrificed in the fire; people built temple or shrine on the cremation ground to worship the satimata and one of the widow-turned goddess is Rani Satimata (also known as Narayani Satimata), a seventeenth century Rajput woman who carried out sati. To the people who participate in the cremation or the ritual the Sati is both a blessing and a curse. People come to witness the ritual expecting sat - a palpable force of virtue and truth will come from the mouth of the widow in types of blessing and curse. The people believe the widow will bless the good and faithful and curse the bad and ones who defy what is right or who stands athwart in her path. According to the old traditions and the law of manu, a pativatra