Ngaben or Cremation Ceremony at Desa Padangtegal Ubud

NGABEN OR CREMATION CEREMONY

Ngaben or cremation ceremony is part of culture of Bali  Island. We have two kinds of ngaben  they are : individual ngaben and massal ngaben. Individual ngaben that do by one family or individual way ,usually the member family death by sunddenly and this family have high kasta and reach family. Massal ngaben usually do every 5 years each village in Bali. Massal ngaben do by member of community each village . And the cost massal ngaben usually from village or collected by community. The cost massal ngaben will be more cheap than individual ngaben.

This ritual for to send the deceased to the next life.The body of the deceased will be placed as if sleeping, and the family will continue to treat the deceased as sleeping. No tears are shed, because the deceased is only temporarily not present and will reincarnate or find his final rest in Moksha (freeing from the reincarnation and death cycle).

The proper day of the ceremony is always a matter of consulting a specialist on ceremony days. On the day of the ceremony, the body of the deceased is placed inside a coffin. This coffin is placed inside a sarcophagus resembling a buffalo (Lembu) or in a temple structure (Wadah) made of paper and wood. The buffalo or temple structure will be carried to the cremation site in a procession. The procession is not walking in a straight line. This is to confuse bad spirits and keep them away from the deceased.
The climax of Ngaben is the burning of the whole structure, together with the body of the deceased. The fire is necessary to free the spirit from the body and enable reincarnation.

This vidio when my grand father take from the ground to burning in the fire  for next proceccion ceremony .

Today in my village ( Pekraman Desa Padangtegal Ubud) doing first procession of ngaben or creamtion ceremony. Our village have almost 84 death people will be do cremation . The top of cremation in My village will be on 21 th September 2013. All our community have participation for this ceremony . We do gotong royong or work together each other  so all the procession have good way or efficient.Cremation usually cremation ceremony is generally led by holy man or sulingih (pemangku and Ida pedanda ). They will do procession with holy mantra, holy song ,offerings and the end we prayer together. 
Appealed to the god of the dead person  for  give his side.

 

 After the fire all bone and part of body will be put on jar and closed by white and yellow clothes with flowers  and do next step preocession of ceremony .

Typically, mourners try not to cry during these ceremonies for fear that they will halt the deceased in their journey to the afterlife. But some communities believe the shedding of a tear towards the end of the ritual can mean the spirit has completed its journey.

Hindu believe our body from five element they are : water,fire ,air, earth and ether. So Every Hindu people when die should be do ngaben or cremation ceremony. Because that we believe do ngaben our soul or spirit will be quickly to get reincarnation . And our body can quickly back to five element. 

Hindu relegion believe karma and karma phala. Karma thats mean our action and phala that means result of our action . So if you do bad things as long as you live in the wold the result will get bad things too.Or if we do good things we will get good things too. That only simple example.  The karma phala can be sundenly you get, after next live your get or directly you get.

And about reincarnation that can be happend  in our lives. We can believe it or not. Because we never know about that. Because we can`t see after die when our soul/spirit  or roh  go. We just can see our body/ physical already die . We have real wold or  that call skala and not real wold or that call niskala.