Satimata worship
Sati is defined as "good women or a good wife," woman don't act sati, she became a sati by jumping into husband's funeral pyre and burned with him. It is been a long religious belief and practice in India. In Hindu mythology, began as an act of defiance; Sati immolated herself because her father, Daksha would not accept a filthy, ragged, serpent adorned ascetic as her husband, Siva. Sati became really angry at her father and her anger "sat," also defines as pure woman power makes fire on her body and burned her. Sati exercised her free choice in face of patriarchal oppression and preferred to die instead of accepting the decisions thrust upon her by apparently respectable, "we-known-better" adults. Sati is very honorable act and when woman became a sati, they become respectable by people, family and become a goddess who looks out for her family. However, there have been long gone questions about if it is right act to give a freedom to women. For, people......
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