Holy man in India ends his journey in a sitting position
- 5 years ago
He was last seen while meditating, in a sitting position. "Aakhri darshan kar lo, bhai!". End of the road for a Hindu saint, as opposed to the normal mode. They surround him with salt to aid in rapid decomposition.
A shivling in a temple. People dig a pit in preparation for the end rituals of the sadhu. A mixture of ash is prepared to anoint the man of god, and off he goes... His eyes are swollen up. His followers take his clothes off and bathe him. Even kids join in to the ceremony. Then they protect his modesty with a loin cloth and rub ash onto him.
Not for people with a weak heart, this is real footage never seen before. The footage is of the end journey of a Hindu sadhu in Madhya Pradesh, India. His followers or family members rub him with some paste and then cover him with a cloth. This sadhu is being put to rest in a sitting position unlike common Hindus. This is old footage and one can assume that the site must have become a place of worship by now.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
A shivling in a temple. People dig a pit in preparation for the end rituals of the sadhu. A mixture of ash is prepared to anoint the man of god, and off he goes... His eyes are swollen up. His followers take his clothes off and bathe him. Even kids join in to the ceremony. Then they protect his modesty with a loin cloth and rub ash onto him.
Not for people with a weak heart, this is real footage never seen before. The footage is of the end journey of a Hindu sadhu in Madhya Pradesh, India. His followers or family members rub him with some paste and then cover him with a cloth. This sadhu is being put to rest in a sitting position unlike common Hindus. This is old footage and one can assume that the site must have become a place of worship by now.
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.