The Extreme Indian Prayer Ritual You've Never Heard Of
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2015
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See why so many women and children are lying in the streets of India for this controversial ritual.
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Hinduism is a fascinating religion. Thanks for posting this!
tvee Hinduism is not a religion. Hindu is a geographical location. The thing [principle] that you are referring to is called sanathana dharma.
I'm an Indian and have never heard about this ritual. 😐
yeah I'm Punjabi and hadn't heard of this before now
***** I've only been in punjab tbh
Because this ritual is mostly practised in Bengal.
@@user-yv8su2rq1p You're still Indian no?
Doesn't mean it doesn't exist... Our country too big and we can't explore or even know about all the cultures.. 🇮🇳🙏🏼
And planking was born! Lol
Telecastvids lol dude
Telecastvids oh my god xD
Stop!!! This is hilarious
HHAHAHAHHA
Try to live with faith and you shall find difference between a human and animal life
I've actually never heard of this ritual in my whole life... it seems very extreme though especially for the babies
Wow. As always, absolutely phenomenal.
While true, the label 'Indian' is very misleading in itself. India is much more complicated and diverse than most people or RUclips channels realize. Not just two different states, but people from two different cities are different from each other. In terms of diversity, India is like a mini-Europe. That is why you will find a huge number of people performing very different rituals, and an equally high number of people not giving a shit about them. As for Hinduism, it is not at all prescriptive. Religion doesn't force them to perform anything. It is more of tradition than religion. Mockery is easy. It is an act of cowardice, performed in the knowledge that there'll always be people to back you up. Try instead to understand other people. It will teach you the acceptance you never knew you were capable of.
PristinePerceptions As someone of Indian descent who was born and raised in the "western world" I totally agree. And I can't count how many times throughout my life I've been asked "do you speak Indian?"... -_-
INDIAS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
So much for Accepting your prayers !!
That can not be a healthy thing to do. Easy to catch a sickness these way.
asdf30111 It's primitive, they do it for religious bullshit reasons.
+Griffin Krious They do it for their kids..
+asdf30111 , We have strong immune systems in India.
+nhs2008NC so damn true, if an american comes and eats the pani puris and stuff they will fall ill, but we will not!
When there was no treatment available to the small pox.. People In Northern India used to rely upon the blessings of Goddess Sheetala.. She was supposed to be the one who killed a demon primarily responsible for fever.. cholera, dysentery, measles, smallpox etc.. Now Indians baby are well vaccinated but surprisingly if the fever of your baby is not getting down even after medicines.. Visit a nearby Temple of Sheetala mata.. Get your blessings there, give the same medicines and see yourself.. I have seen that so many times..
Excellent photographs !
Thank you for subtitling Shantanu's English. That wasn't condescending at all.
First of all who are judging entire India based on this ritual please understand this that most Indians have never even heard about this ritual because it was always performed in Bengal region only. Most kolkata dwellers will also not know about this ritual. This practise is now a days rare even in the Bengal region itself. I witnessed this ritual only once that too in a very rural area. From the very beginning only, very few people ever took part in this ritual, mostly women from santhal tribe or from more rural areas.The number of people performing Dondi has been dwindling every year. Even when i witnessed this ritual last year i did not see a single baby being forced to take part in this ritual.
I know that this ritual is harmful and cruel and abusive to babies but please also think about how abusive circumcision or khatna is for children. This ritual is slowly dying away anyway
Saurabh Banik Khatna prevents so many diseases today, just search it up.
Name a few please then. It is a well known fact in scientific communities and educated circles that circumcision has next to no medical benefits. Only a very few and rare medical anomalies are cured using circumcision.
I'm from south Africa and I'm an Indian we pray to sitala matha for mumps we fast and pray and do prayer this prayer looks facinating and it's suprising to see the faith of many people and I respect it 100 percent
I'm Indian and just finding out about this now
I have witnessed this ritual when I was in Kolkata. The women participating in this ritual are very pious and perform it with utmost devotion.
That thumbnail is juat sad and messed up until I found out what it ment
Why no video?
This is very extinct ritual in India, i have never seen in my life. People have moved on long time ago.
It was for its entire history concentrated in in Bengal so if you are fom any other region you will know nothing about it.
I can't stop feeling giddy whenever I hear an Indian who shares a name from anyone in the Mahabharata.
Nice story, but better microphone for the photographer's narration next time please?
Don't think he can afford a better one in India...
+Wanderer628 seriously...??
Wanderer628 nigga that's fucked up
People dont use mics in india, they tear the recorder out of their phones and hardwire it to their pc
Wanderer628 ever use BOSE speakers? Its designed by an Indian Bengali Hindu. #GoFigure
Religion, just ya know.... WHAT THE F***
Not going to cover the fire ritual in this video? Maybe another? :) I would like to see
i live in Kolkata where this ritual is said to take place in this video, and i have never witnessed nor heard about anything like this, so i guess only an few hundred people out of billions of Hindu do this kind of worship.
*There are many ways to show your gratitude, it's on you to follow what you like, nothing is forced, that's the beauty of Sanatan Dharma i.e. Hinduism.*
Superstition
Stopped all rituals except being vegetarian for certain special occasions. I don't have the heart to eat non vege on those auspicious days. So, i still keep the practice because it is good to be vegetarian occasionally. My 1 month vegetarian is going to start soon. Suddenly, i had the thought shall i continue or break it this year. I started it as a way of thanking the Lord for his grace, for fulfilling my wish. But now, i am having a 2nd thought. Why must i hold on to my promises when i have go through of so much pain???
Someone forgot to add the annotations
Lord Jesus please save them and help them ......
Just a question ... How are you,so convinced Jesus christ is the one true god. What makes your god real and theirs false Idols ? The Indian scriptures like the veda's , bhagavad-gita or srimad-bhagavatam are way older then the bible.
It happens every year here
I'm from West Bengal 🇮🇳
And people here do it I never knew why
Then I asked my hindu friend he was also unable to say me
that's why I search it up .
I am Indian and I can say I have never heard if this ritual. But I think since I come from the west side of India it might explain why I have not heard about it. Seeing as this ritual takes place in the east side of India.
Also post a video and talk about babies traumatized by circumcision,at least here trouble is being borne by a grown up mother only.
Gratitude is the secret hope of further favors.
-- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
That’s creepy and scary and weird I’m never visiting India
Please make a video on the Hindu Temple of Lord Venkateshwara in Tirupati, It is considered the most scared place and almost every Hindu visit this richest place of worship in the world that sees more than 1million visitors a day. Every Hindu in India visits this centuries old temple as a must visit pilgrimage in his/her lifetime
That temple does a goood business
Middle-class atheist left-wingers, please stop criticizing cultures you know nothing about. The absence of your unique opinions will be appreciated, thank you.
mrbandishbhoir ugh I hate leftist media...
+cool blizzard what a great reply, religion dulls the mind through dogma and ceremony, it's all a huge con
+Your Daddy Saitama yes, this is a stupid practice but when all hope is lost people are left with only one thing 'belief'. Also, I'm pretty sure the average iq for India is misinterpreted. You have to take in factors such as huge chunk of uneducated population in the calculation to get that result.
I'm an Indian, I'm at MIT. I bet, if you take the average IQ of educated Indians , it'll be more than USA's.
Arvind Puthige Then you have never talked to the people living in the smaller towns and villages. I too know that the average IQ of the metros must be around 100, but thats because of proper nutrition, proper education and less superstitions. You are forgetting that the majority of our country still lives at sub-saharan levels as indicated by the HDI of India.
Moreover that data is from surveys conducted in the seventies and eighties when both India and China were at the same levels of HDI, but I guess it was because of the Communist govt that banned religion in China and carried out a massive literacy campaign that we see a twenty point difference in the average IQs. I don't consider it to be genetic too. I am just against superstitions as it holds us back. Look at middle east for example, All they care about is one book and thats why their average IQ hasn't improved much despite them being literate and rich....as they don't think out of the box. Finally congratulations for being an MITian. I hope you will do great things for the country in the future.
I love Hinduism !!
I love it, it's very colorful and vibrant, I'm a Muslim by the way
Do you also love burning in hell because your not a Christian
One good thing - Municipality seem to water wash the roads at least this way. If you happened to cross the road by walking or in a car, you would not have even noticed this. On the road so many things happen in India. but the magnified CLOSE UP shots make them appear like the way it appears now.
Feeling sorry for these women & their children.
Them poor babies on the asphalt...
SORRY.. but that's just so wrong whatever y'all say.
You fukin Westerner don't know anything ..shut your sucking mouth shut
So why others people have problem with it "They have their Own Country, Own Religion, Own Practice, Own faith. Every religion has its different way of practice, "At least it is not extreme as MORTIFICATION of Flesh, Flagelation, Scarification, Circumcision, Sokushinbutsu in other religion "". I m not against any religion i am against wrong way of showing Indian practices and religion by Seeker Stories.
that is there tap
I am a Hindu and never heard about it , actually the fact is that in Hinduism there are many Gods and a devotee of one specific God does the rituals to make that God happy, and for each God you have to perform things differently while in some cases it turns to be mere superstition created by some people which just spreads among people and everybody starts doing that in order to get his/her wishes come true.
Human has as much energy that it can conquer world . Man destroy himself too. To prevent from self destroying ( due to bad habits acts which are uncontrollable) man has to make sacrifices has to perform fasting etc. It is one of them . Think silently man is enemy of itself. Nothing else can defeat a man
Now indians will deny this as usual lol
My church does the same thing, they even cry when they do it! Worshipping and praising and/or just meekly praying are all beautiful things? Even this is worth noting on all aspects as quiet beautiful don't you think? If only they were Christian...
IMO, this not extreme at all. An extreme ritual should be something harmful like flagellation.
Extreme? Not even close. There are destinations that some travel hundreds of miles preforming this type of prayer.
Those hindus don't know how many gods they worship of..
Sad but true!
im Hindu and have never seen this lol
"traumatized baby", yey for superstition.why don't you use the trauma score track?
Never heard of that goddes before.
+Abhishek Kumar Dev Bad Hindu! Just kidding! ;-) Count the stars. That's how many Gods and Goddesses exist. ;-)
They are not GODS they are simply deities of certain local areas. Even Buddhists have millions of deities which are recognised as GODS in western languages. India never had a vatican type of body thats why so much confusion, but it also meant no bloodshed no ban on science and no crusades.
Abhishek Kumar Dev Vatican? Bloodshed? Ban on science? Are you presuming I'm a Christian? ^_^
No. In Buddhism there are not "millions" of gods, for lack of a better word in English (maybe 'deity' is better...). Gods/deities are recognized but usually come from the indigenous religions wherever Buddhism spread. Even in India the Vedic Gods take place under the Buddhas, unless they are made into buddhas like in the Tibetan tradition. Chakrasamvara is really just another form of Shiva and Kali in tantric union.
Yes I know there's no pope or Dalai Lama for Sanatan Dharma. Stop presuming things. Hinduism (as called in the West) is open source. It's a problem and simultaneously a blessing. It gives rise to too many phony gurus and practices. However it welcomes all, in theory, to approach the divine in anyway they want. Anyway, each region does have local deities,and other Gods throughout India. Like Kali and Durga isn't popular in the Western parts of India, but she is still a Goddess that is considered an aspect of Parabrahman.
E. Lin I am not assuming you are a christain mate. I am just saying what happened in India and Eastern hemisphere in general.
Why do you think there are no tribes in modern Europe? Catholic Church caused bloodshed isn'it?
Regarding your explanation of so many deities in Buddhism and Hinduism I agree with you thats what exactly happened.
But then fake gurus and phony practices in hinduism is a result of lack of Central Command like Vatican? No I don't think so there are so many stupid teleevangelists and even many fake priests and useless practices in Church too.
P.S. why are outsiders so fixated with Mother Kali and Mother Durga? The idea of divine female is not the concept of India alone. In vietnam, in Japan, in China, in Tibet and even in Greek religion right? However the difference is there and that is in areas where old religions are still alive people consider them as a part of divinity and where old religions are dead old divinity figures of both Male and Female are just part of fashion or some fantasy.
Abhishek Kumar Dev Even with a central body like the Vatican corruption still occurred and gave rise to other sects and even other offshoots. Think Martin Luther and Calvin. People are people, and this is samsara. There will ALWAYS be problems. People will either use wisdom for good or bad. Look at all the so-called holy men on both sides of the world that have become wealthy from religion and spirituality. It will never end, but people like you and I just have to use our own wisdom and dismiss (and maybe expose) such charlatans.
No comment on tribes. You just need to visit the West to see for yourself.
Kali and Durga are popular because "outsiders" are tired of masculine angry Godheads. Yes eventually there is no form. But some needs these divine forms to understand the ultimate Parabhaman, or whatever. The drop returns to the ocean. ;-) But first many must can only see the drop. Think about growing up in a Christian-Muslim culture. God comes off very angry all the time and is referred to as "Father" a lot. He is also unknowing and dualistic. No Vedanta type moksha here. You're not God. You're not even remotely divine. You're just tainted with sin since time began. People that are breaking away from that are looking East to India for a more compassionate nurturing Godhead, even if it's wrathful compassion like Kali. The Virgin Mary and Gaudalupe have a secondary position. Durga has the option of being worshiped on her own without any masculine Gods in the mix. I personally like the Shakti cults. You see a LOT of it carried over into Tibetan Buddhism. So that can fill the void too for many that are weary of angry masculine Godheads.
Well at least they're not burning widdows anymore
now all Hindus have to follow these difficult custom,, it is not compulsory
people do it as a faith and devotion towards god
you meant "not" instead of "now"??
Lost souls
These poor people are deceived by their priests who looting them in the name of rituals.
Waste of time.
I agree it is such a fucking waste of time they could of done so much more productive things than fucking lay down in the middle of the road witch is fucking stupid.
Zachery Line They probably think the same thing about Christians going to Mass and praying to God
Iwon't tellmyname Both are wastes of time and resources.
David Snipes Religion is waste of time.
eastJR
exactly.
Kranke menschen
I pray that all of the people in that video have the blessing to know Jesus one day. There are not multiple Gods. Just one. One God. One Son. One Holy Spirit. God bless
Cultures vary from place to place - there need not be a logic and i don't get the point why westerners must judge everything based on your situation and knowledge.
Did you guys ever think - you don't know everything. maybe instead of judging you should appreciate the vastness of cultures and their way of saying thank you for what they have. People have different ways of expressing - don't worry the Mothers are not going hurt or traumatise their own child.
Seeker Stories How about something inspirational from India that does not concern the poor or downtrodden? While this 'story' is interesting, it is feeding a stereotype about India, along with all the other stories about India in all your sister channels. You owe it to create an impartial perspective by now.
Yeah...your Goddess isn't watching, 'cause she doesn't exist.
This is madness
Holyshit!! I lived in Kolkata all my life but never seen anything like this. There are many impurities like this evolved over time in Hinduism. This are the distortion of actual rituals, which is very common in Hinduism as this is the oldest religion of world. Difficult to preserve in it's purest form.
+Gourav Das your from salt lake I guess..
Subhadip Dey Nopes I live close to the SOnagachi.
haha...
then you should know about the ritual..
Subhadip Dey The only ritual I know is the up and down mechanism on the bed. lolzz
good luck with that..
Looks idiotic.
religion has no rationality.
great photos for an 'amateur' photographer.
take a dip in the dirty river ganges
This video content is represented so out of context!
Yep! Hinduism is a religion al right.
You can tell by the silly rituals,
just like all religions. :þ
please continue judging Indians on the basis of this video
most of us Indians have not even heard of this
Who the hell is #saibaba is that also a god to j indian people llol
Is that Mia Khalifa?
mrwhatsmyname3x4
Rofl
Buti nlang sa pilipinas walang ganyan puro kristiyano at muslim ang tao sa pilipinas walang ganyang tradisyon ihihiga mo yung anak mo sa kalsada
If this is called a religion, I'd rather be an atheist...😁😁😁
From which angel you told it extreme? You people are always try to disrepute our culture.To understand us and our culture, you must borden your mind and thinking. It is much better than atleast the khatna of babies.
Islam is the truth. Read the Meaning of the Quran. This is self sacrifice for Jinns (spirits) which are god created not god themselves. Come to the truth people . Islam is the truth.
re good, but before I have time to process its meaning at the end, you promote yourself with a preview of other shows. I find this self-serving, distracting, and it might be enough to quit watching your otherwise excellent videos. Such sharing what I hope it valuable for you to hear.