The time it takes to burn the corpse on the pyre depends upon the deceased's sins. The more sinful a person has been, the longer time the cremation rite takes. This is also perceived as a painstaking and horrifying experience for the deceased.

Hindu yogis are buried. The grave is about six feet deep and circular in form in which the deceased is placed with his legs crossed. Then the hole is filled with salt until it reaches the neck of the sadhu. The head, which still is exposed, is covered by innumerable coconuts that are broken until the scull is completely fractured, or in other words, the head of the hermits are broken with coconuts. This is done to release the prana (life), which is believed to be imprisoned in the scull.

Pilgrimages are a means to prepare one's death by earsing sin.

The Muktinath temple with its 108 waterspouts is the second most sacred Hindu place in Nepal. It is a holy shrine for Hindus as well as Buddhists and here the two religions co-exist together. In Muktinath the original fire burns in water in harmony, and the rocks and the soils are as they were in the beginning of time.

Chinnamasta is on the cremation ground standing on the copulating bodies of Kama and Rati - the god of sexual lust and his wife. Chinnamasta has decapitated her own head from which jets of blood spurt from the neck feeding two female attendants with blood but also her own severed head. Life, sex and death are inseparable.

In some origin myths there was nothing in the beginning but water, and water had an apriori existence. From the water originated Shakti.

All pro-creative fluids whether it is milk, sperm or blood can be imagined, explained and understood from water metaphors. A river is a continuous flowing source for such metaphorical elaborations. As a river it is more than just physical water or fluid H2O. It is spiritual water, nourishing water of the fields, feeding milk for children, and blood in the veins of the devotees. When Chinnamasta sacrifices her head and feeds her devotees with her own blood, it might be interpreted as an extreme type of motherhood.

Shashan Kali in general is one of the most almighty forms of Kali. There are two ways of making the Shashan Kali statue depending upon whether the devotees will follow the Tantric or the Vaishnava path of worship. The Tantric Shashan Kali rituals worship the violent and ferocious Kali whereas the Vaishnava Shashan Kali rituals worship the peaceful Kali. The Tantric Shashan Kali is another form of Kali called Chandalini, who is an uttermost dangerous and destructive form of Kali.

The aim is to become so holy that one may perform miracles whereby distributing prosperity and goodness to the common people. Thus, the capacity to heal and treat others is a measurement for holiness, and consequently a yogi who has these capacities has proven that his and only his mantras, yogas and rituals are the righteous ones. This makes schools of sadhus and disciples are following the gurus because the guru has the property and the knowledge of the rituals which made his holiness.

Death is inevitably to everyone, and the death of a member of a community is a problem and an event that each person, family and society have to solve, understand and incorporate into their own lives and social structures.

The ascetics have already offered themselves to the gods, and the tapa of an ascetic is said to burn him internally so he is not cremated.

True and sacred knowledge has to be revealed through skills, practice and devotion.

The philosopher Tripura Rahasya said "The study of philosophy without longing for liberation is like dressing up a corpse".

"Truth cannot be expressed in words; if it could it wouldn't be true".