THE
WAGES OF ACTION: RELIGION IN A HINDU VILLAGE (47 minutes,
1979)
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...focuses
on everyday religious practices in the village of Soyepur, near Banaras.
The film observes young men praying to Lord Hanuman before a wrestling
match, a grandmother offering water to a sacred tulsi plant, a Brahman
priest conducting a Satyanarayan puja, low-caste ojhas exorcising spirits
from the ill, and a Soyepur couple making a one-day pilgrimage to a
shrine by the Ganges river. The film shows villagers describing ghosts
and their placation, a brahman housewife explaining how she maintains
her kitchen's ritual purity, and an itinerant holy man teaching through
song the oneness of God and the inevitability of receiving the wages
of one's actions.
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