Sufferings due to ill fated customs

Once there was a mishap in Rammohan’s house. His elder brother had died. Everybody in the house was crying bitterly. Rammohan was a small child at that time. When he saw the dead body of his elder bother lying on the floor, he asked his father, ‘‘Why has been my elder brother laid on the floor, father?’’
Father replied crying, ‘‘Son, your elder brother is no more. He is dead. God has taken him away from us forever.’’
On hearing this, Rammohan also started crying bitterly. That was the first time he had ever seen a dead body. The dead was to be carried to the cremation ground. Inside the house, his sister-in-law was being decorated as newly-wed. The society people were about to burn her alongwith the dead body of her husband. When Rammohan saw his sister-in-law decorated as a newly wed women, he was very much surprised.
Various questions came across his mind— My elder brother had died, Yet, my sister-in-law is being decorated as a newly wed woman. Why so? Who would have cleared his doubts? Everybody was in deep grief.

The dead body of his elder brother was being carried to the cremation ground. In this procession, men and women were there. Males were carrying the dead body whereas females were taking the widow along with them to burn her live alongwith her dead husband. The widow was retaliating forcibly to be burnt alive with her dead husband, but in vain. She was being forced by the women to be ‘Sati’. She was crying bitterly, but the superstitious society was not heeding to her cries. A funeral pyre was prepared. The dead body was laid on it.
Thereafter, the widow was forcibly brought near the pyre. The way a goat cries bitterly while being sacrificed in the same way the widow was crying for life. But nobody was listening to her miserable condition. It was only Rammohan in the crowd who was really getting very upset by seeing his sister-in-law crying. He went near his father and pleaded, ‘‘Father! Please be kind to my sister-in-law. Look nobodies approaching to help her, but you are the one who can save her, otherwise, these people will forcibly get her burned alongwith the dead body. I request you to save her. Father! Please save her. Please save her.’’ His father did not heed to his request at all. The dead body was burnt by fire. Rammohan’s sister-in-law was also burning along with the dead body. After a few hours, there was nothing except ashes and ashes around.

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