In the midst of deep grief, a scholar writes how Hindu rituals taught her to let go
- Written by Ketika Garg, Ph.D. Student of Cognitive Science, University of California, Merced
Hindu cremation being performed on the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, India.Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images
Cultures have built elaborate rituals to help humans process the grief of losing someone.
Rituals can hold the core beliefs of a culture and provide a sense of control in an otherwise helpless situation. I came to understand this...