The Ganges River in Varanasi

Male1: The ancient city of Varanasl on the Ganges River in considered by Hindus, the holiest place in all of the India and the world. Million of Hindus pilgrims have for thousands of years into Varanasl to float on the sacred waters of the Ganges. According to Hindu theology, Varanasl and Ganges River liberates soul from body. Male2: There’s a happening that the people are coming from the different part of India and they are coming here for their resonance ceremony which is related to the God. And they are just balancing everything that everything as the symbol of God. The stone is God. That water is God. Sky is God. The God, God, so millions of God in there and I even not count the God. But one the things are there, that is their faith. I think that the faith is God, their faith, their thinking in that particular way that everything is God. So they have sustained ecological balance and they are treating as a nature is a God that this is the prime way to just do their ritual, their ceremonies than the people are in the barbarian age that the people are just treating everything which is magical. They were just treated as a God. Male1: The bells in Hindi religion helped blood out external sense to focus to mind inward for concentration. There are over 100 different guts or steps stretching more than eight kilometers or over four miles along the banks of the Ganges, many of which, way back to the 16 hundreds. They’re liked thousands of believers come here, offering their prayers at sunrise, glancing themselves physically and metaphorically in the sacred waters of the holiest of rivers. Pilgrims believe emerging in the Ganges will solve them of all sins. Male2: This is the place that the people are thinking that the Ganges is [foreign language], that the Ganges is coming from the heaven that is the Heaven’s River. And people are thinking that is a Paap Nashni. You can just get rid off the sin if you will just take a bath in that water. So this auspiciousness that truth the Ganges as a holy river and this is the place which is known as the Mecca for the Hindus and also like a gurus for a Hindus or radicand city you can see these places. The trinity effect you will find here that the Ganges snowing and stream so high in the monsoon season. That’s why the people think that the controlling of that stream is—that is mythical destroy. The shiver has just controlled that they had to control with hairs. And the Shiva’s place, the first thing and the second thought is the Ganges and the third part is the Kashi. [Foreign Language] This place is for the learning. This place has given the best joy and success. This place is giving you also the meditation. This place various forms of meditations are here and various types of skills here, handy crafts are there. So that trinity effect, you will find from the life to death. That is a journey and you will find one place the skill of the life and another place is [foreign language] which is related to the death and both are in the balance rate. So the people are little relax, a little calm in a harmonies way. [Foreign Language] Male1: It’s winter in India now, December and the Ganges is loved. But during a heavy monsoon season, water levels have climbed above the door to this God. In 1948, 67 and 79, this was the high water mark. Male2: That is a commercial that that I have told you that from the—before the fifth—even there are minor period, these were shriven out there and they are using that. And from the time in memorial, they are just doing that type of the business. This is the tradition part. They’re calling the Dhobi and they are not using the detergent, otherwise they are using the natural fibers to make the gloves clean. Male1: Throughout the day, there are believers on the river. There is life here but for many, that is why they have come to the Gangees waiting further on or for a love one who has passed on. Male2: That is known as the burning hard, the most auspicious card. You will find here the life has no time and the birth has no time and the death has no time. So then I read that your body came here, they will do it. You will find that many, many burning people are there and these two people are there, you are mostly thinking that one is wrapped in the yellow silk cloth and the second is wrapped in the red color silk cloth. So from the birth to death, they’re treating from the silk. Silk is also very auspicious to the bananas. So the women are just wrapped in the red silk cloth and the men are in yellow silk cloth. And they’re burning the most near and near in the relative scheme here to be a part of that ceremony to say goodbye to the soul, to the supreme soul. Male1: Across the river, a religious festival, one of the largest scene here in several years. Pilgrims have come from all over the country and neighboring countries to hear Sidus, Hindu religious men delivered their messages of prayer and theology. Nearly 100,000 that are here now with more arriving hourly. In Sarna about eight miles from Varanasl, the birth place of Buddhism. This massive fifth century Stupa marks the place in a nearer park that Buddha in 450 B. C presented his teachings for the first time revealing his eight full paths in enlightenment. Buddha’s pilgrims from all over the world come here as one of the four places of pilgrim age, all devote follower should visit. One the grounds are there rulings of a thriving monastic community gaining back to the third century B. C. The monastery was sacked and destroyed by riding Turkish Mughal armies at the end of the 12 century, eventually being plundered for building materials. The runs were uncovered by British archeologist in early 1900s.