Gaya Pitru Tarpana
The ancestral offering at Gaya in Bihar: Pind Daan at the Vishnupad temple and the Phalgu river, with a panda who knows the procedure.
After the funeral
Ancestral rites and sacred journeys
For many Hindu families, obligation to the departed does not end with the funeral. For those who wish to complete it fully, the journey leads to Gaya and to Kashi.
MIFA arranges both journeys for Malaysian families: the travel, the priests, and the ceremonial arrangements at each site.
These are not tours. The point of the journey is the rites, and everything else exists to make sure the rites are performed properly, at the right places, without the family having to negotiate anything on arrival in a town they do not know.
Families come to this at different times. Some go within a year of a death. Some go decades later, for a grandparent whose rites were never completed because there was no money and no way to travel. Neither is late.
Two journeys
Kashi Moksha Yatra
Immersion of the ashes in the Ganga at Varanasi, and rites performed at the ghats.
Start with a conversation
Most families have questions before they have plans, and many of the questions are ones they are reluctant to ask a priest. Ask us first.