Book Karumathi Prayers in Chennai

There are different kinds of methods by which the family members and close friends offer the last set of prayers after cremation. In Tamil rituals, these prayers are known as Karumathi prayers. These prayers are performed on the 16th day after the cremation ritual of the deceased person. You can perform this ritual of prayers at your home. The help of professional and well-trained members of the Last Journey team makes arrangements easy.

What is karumathi Prayer?

If you want to understand the meaning of Karumathi prayers then you have to break the word Karumathi into two parts. The first part is Karma which means rites and the second part is Athi which means the end of something. So you can get the whole meaning of the word Karumathi as "end of the rites".

When to do Karumathi Prayer?

Usually, people start the Karumathi prayer on the night of the 15th day and end it in the morning of the 16th day. But some communities follow a distinct pattern and they consider the 13th day as the end of the rites. So they offer their last set of prayers on the 13th day after cremation. The followers of this community give a distinct name to this and it is called Sapindikarnam.

What is the Right way of Performing Karumathi Prayer at Home?

Here some points are given that one should keep in mind before making arrangements for Karumathi prayer.

• There is a tradition of offering food which is known as Padyal in families so the family members can take help of the last journey team in preparing food.
• The person who cremates the body went to the sea shore to immerse the ashes with all the male family members. In this ritual that person wears the same dhoti which he wore at the time of ashes collection.
• The person performs the kalasa pooja after wearing Pavithram and Ponool.
• The ladies at the home wash the house when the male members go to the sea shore and Kalasa pooja.
• The person after performing the kalasa pooja and offering prayers to the God of death offers pindam ( rice balls) to the forefathers of the family.
• The person goes around the three pindam in an anti-clockwise direction and offers dhup deep and aarti to those pindam.
• After that, the person performs the Tarpan ritual in which he offers water with the black til seeds.
• The person keeps the padyal and that pindam in a cloth and immerses them into the sea.
• After that, he takes a holy dip in the seawater and leaves his Pavithram and Ponool in that water.

What does Last Journey offer?

The last journey team deploys its best staff members in helping you to perform the last prayer for the departed soul. Along with it, we also provide various things which are necessary for the Karumathi prayer ritual.

• Help in preparing the food " Padyal" for the offering.
• Provides urn for collection of the ashes of the deceased person. It is easy to carry the ashes in an urn.
• During the Karumathi prayer, it is necessary to chant the holy mantras by an experienced person. So we help in arranging a pandit or priest for this purpose.
• The team also provides flowers of the choice of service users as any ritual is considered incomplete without offering flowers.
• The team also arranges the Pavithram and ponool for the person who is leading the Karumathi prayer ritual.
• We also provide two or three team members for the supervision of the entire process going on.

How can you book with the Last Journey?

You can follow the simple steps for taking the help of the last journey organization in the Karumathi prayer.

• First, you can call on the helpline number which is attached to this page.
• You can give a short idea about your requirements regarding the Karumathi prayer at your home.
• Discuss the things which are puzzling you in making decisions with the experienced team members.
• Fix the date and venue of the event of Karumathi prayer.

Karumathi prayer helps the departed soul in attaining peace and salvation. People consider this day as an end of mourning their grief so we as a team help them by offering the last prayers with all our efforts. We keep transparency and timely serving, our priority. We guide the people at each stage so that they can perform the ritual without mistake. We also leave some room for the specific tradition of the family who believes in a distinct traditional faith. Resolving their doubts and issue is our prime focus and for this, we are available 24×7. The last journey stands stern with the people in their tough times.