“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don’t know”: Vaishnava philosopher Guru Ramanujacharya's original body preserved in Sri Ranganathaswamy temple with sandalwood paste-saffron for 900 years, no other chemicals added
Hindu religion is one of the world’s oldest religions, which beliefs in the circle of birth and death which happens again and again until one attains Mukti. Where the body is a gift from nature that is made up of five principles ‘bhutas’; fire, water, earth, ether, and air. It is hence believed that all the five principle elements acquired by the body should be given back to nature after death. Thus, Hindus cremate the body of the dead unlike Christians and Muslims, who bury them.