Kumbh Mela

Recently, Kumbh Mela was organized amid rising COVID 19 cases and surging 2nd wave of COVID 19. It has brought the largest pilgrimage function to the spotlight.

About Kumbh Mela

  • Kumbh Mela is a mass congregation of pilgrims who gather to take a bath/dip (Shahi Snan) in a sacred river.
  • People from irrespective of caste, creed or gender are present in the festival and believe that by bathing in the river one is freed from their past sins (karma), and, thus, one becomes eligible for liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
  • Instead of the 12-year cycle that the Kumbh ....
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