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"More than 120 million Hindu devotees, as well as tourists, are expected to visit the north Indian city of Prayagraj over the next few weeks for the Kumbh Mela, a vast spiritual festival at the point where two sacred rivers, the Ganges and Yamuna, converge.
Praygraj is said to be one of four sites in India where drops of the essence of immortality were spilled from an urn being fought over by gods and demons. The festival moves between the four locations, with Prayagraj the largest and most lavish. Pilgrims travel from across the country and wait for days for their opportunity to bathe there for a few seconds, including at least 30 million people on the most auspicious day.
“People come here to taste the nectar of immortality,” says Sarabhang Giri, an Australian who was ordained a sadhu, or Hindu saint, in 2004."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/kumbh-mela-hindus-converge...
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In todays Kumbh Mela news....
In todays Kumbh Mela news....
Mysterious naked holy men a huge draw at India's Kumbh Mela
Ash-smeared and dreadlocked Naga sadhus or Hindu ascetics, naked except for rosary beads and garlands and smoking wooden pipes, are a huge draw at the world’s largest religious festival that began this week in India.
At the Kumbh Mela, or “festival of the pot”, held this year in Prayagraj in north India, organizers expect up to 150 million people to bathe at the confluence of three holy rivers: the Ganges, the Yamuna and a mythical third river, the Saraswati.
The festival is one of the only opportunities to see the reclusive Naga sadhus, some of whom live in caves after taking a vow of celibacy and renouncing worldly possessions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-religion-kumbh/mysterious-naked...
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Kumbh Mela update!!!
Kumbh Mela update!!!
What it's like at the greatest spiritual gathering on Earth
Bar some very cool sunglasses, Baba Rajharati is completely stark naked. Smeared only in ash, symbolising his commitment to the Hindu deity Shiva, this renunciate ‘naga baba’ lives a mendicant life of austerity in pursuit of self-realisation. At least that’s what he tells me in between puffs of ganja.
I meet him at the Kumbh Mela currently underway in Prayagraj, formerly Allahabad, in Northern India: a 55-day long festival running until March 4. By its end an anticipated 150 million salvation-seeking Hindus will have attended the greatest spiritual gathering on Earth.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/india/articles/kumb...
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The Kumbh Mela updates keep rolling in!
55 million devotees for busiest days of Hindu megafestival
Some 55 million Hindu devotees plunged into holy waters to cleanse their sins and seek salvation over the busiest days of the world's largest religious gathering, officials said Tuesday. The gigantic crowds thronged the confluence of three rivers, one of them mythical, in northern India over Sunday and Monday. The Mauni Amavasya -- or new moon day -- on Monday, is the most auspicious day of the 48-day Kumbh Mela festival. Numbers were bigger than expected and now over 120 million people have visited the Kumbh since it began in mid-January, more than were expected for the entire festival running until March 4.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190205-55-million-devotees-busiest-days-hi...
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How much water is displaced
How much water is displaced by 55 million people?
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But apparently the naked pot
But apparently the naked pot smoking is going strong!
Naked pot-smoking sect grows at Indian Hindu fest
PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — At the world’s largest pilgrimage in Prayagraj in northern India, tens of millions of Hindu faithful travel to the sacred sangam — the confluence of three holy rivers — to take a dip.
The Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, is a series of baths by Hindu sadhus and sadhvis, holy men and women, and other pilgrims who believe the ritual cleanses them of their sins and ends the process of repeated reincarnation.
For some, stripping down for a holy dip also signifies the stripping away of the material world.
At every Kumbh, including this year’s, thousands of devotees are initiated into the reclusive sect of the Naga Sadhus — naked, ash-smeared cannabis-smoking Hindu warriors and onetime-armed defenders of the faith who for centuries have lived as ascetics in jungles and caves.
https://www.apnews.com/a96a9810d32d4783a5094585c9b32359
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