Post Cremation Rites

After leaving the crematorium the Karta offers three libations of water with sesame seeds. The Karta should abstain from shedding tears while giving the post cremation libations, because the deceased has to consume all the tears and snot that is shed.

Whatever things that were brought from the home should be left behind or discarded and are not to be taken back home. Keep the place clean.

The mourners should then all go for bath in a river or the sea chanting some bhajans or kirtans, with the youth walking ahead. The chief mourner should shave his head.

If the sea bath is not possible then all the mourners should at least visit the beach, spend some time there and then return home. At the door of their houses they should chew neem leaves, rinse their mouths with water and touching black sesame seeds, lawn grass, or any other auspicious thing and touching their feet lightly on a stone should enter the house and take a shower immediately with their clothes on.