Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Hindu cremation rituals

  • Immortal death: before and after

    Karen De Looze Belgium   The slow revenge of unforgiving Law And the deep need of universal pain And hard sacrifice and tragic consequence Out of a Timeless barrier she must break, Penetrate with her thinking depths the Void’s monstrous hush, Look into the lonely eyes of immortal Death. — From Shri Aurobindo’s “Savitri”  …