Bageshwar Dham Sarkar
Is it better to serve parents while alive or do pilgrimage rites after they die?
Serve parents while they are alive
Do not neglect your parents in life and then take them to the Ganga after death. Speak to them with love, serve them and follow their word while they live.
I request you: after death you may or may not be able to give a Ganga bath, but while your father lives, do bathe him in the Ganga with your words. Speak with love, serve him, obey your parents' word.