Before his incursion in the quest of food, water and shelter, a burdensome swathe of religion is endowed upon him.
With or without his wishes or temperament, his destiny is made to decide what values he will follow; what God he will bow before; in what procedure he will marry, with which caste’s mate; which laws will be applicable to him…so much is the level that his last rites are also pre- decided on the same parameters…clarifying whether his carcass will be burnt or buried.
They say, a Hindu’s soul will get solace only if his body is burnt, and so do the Muslims say that a Muslim body must be buried.
From B- for Birth, he ends up getting fused to B- for either Buried or Burnt.
Inference is, till death, the religion is attached to the dead body… till it is disposed off in the manner provided in the region that bound him throughout his life, before the soul is set free to the skies.
My question is:
What, when a human who is striked off from the list of humans, dies?
A human with identity, only, possesses a religion
A human without an identity is presumed to have no religion.
Humans with family, wealth and prosperous destinies possess religion till the time they die and their last rights preformed.
What, in case of a squall of bodies getting perished by famines, calamities or even when trains meet an accident, and bodies disfigured/ displaced/ mutilated…which religion prevails for performing the last rites of the bodies..who asks for the permission of those unclaimed cadavers and who cares???
That mass of bodies who lie lifeless, some of them probably followed their religions all through their lives displaying it in their eating, marrying, celebrations, attires and language...die just as a "dead body".
The oxford dictionary defines death as, “The event of dying or departure from life; the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism, the absence of life or state of being dead.”
A dead body is a dead body…the definition of a dead body doesn’t differentiate between a dead body of a human or a beast, or a bird, or just an emotion…
So, a person is after the religion and not religion after him...Will anybody, other than the heretics agree??
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