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PURI UBUD CREMATION CEREMONY

Cremation in balinies hindust tradition is symbolization about “pralina” or back our body to the earth and our soul to the heaven (wiweka nanda).

Balinese Hinduism is widely divergent from the Indian Hindu orthodoxy. As such, most practices of the Indian Hindu “mainstream” are ignored and abandoned, especially regarding the use of butter. Balinese Hindu dead are generally buried for a period of time, which may exceed one month or more, so that the cremation ceremony (Ngaben) can occur on an auspicious day in theBalinese-Javanese Calendar system (“Saka”). Additionally, if the departed was a court servant, member of the court or minor noble, the cremation can be postponed up to several years to coincide with the cremation of their Prince. Balinese funerals are very expensive and the body may be interred until the family can afford it or until there is a group funeral planned by the village or family when costs will be less. The purpose of burying the corpse is for thedecay process to consume the fluids of the corpse, which allows for an easier, more rapid and more complete cremation.