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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Varanasi - wandering on the ghats


Morning pooja



Morning ritual bath












The saddhus are supposed to be awaken beings, but very often one finds them asleep.













































This pond is supposed to be the holiest of all, dug by Vishnu for pleasing his brother Shiva. Hindus believe that by bathing in it they will get automatically the liberation. Buddhists say that very few humans get the liberation and that they work for that during hundreds of successive lives. Jains say it is so difficult to get the liberation that only one human being is able to get it every 21000 years. But Hindus are very fond of this kind of superstitious shortcuts.



Pilgrims performing a pooja.








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