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Haridwar Kumbh Mela
The Haridwar Kumbh Mela 2021 is proclaimed a bathing festival by the many great pilgrimage lovers from India, just like the world. It will be a groundbreaking event of this century, that set by perceptions of different customs, conventions, and services. Where a big mass of different religions come and collect to celebrate the bathing festival.
The festival will include various religious lectures by many Hindu priests and great social sages for social extreme, vital balance, a healthy lifestyle & natural balance, the incorporate mass can take care of conversations.
This time the Kumbh Mela will start in 2021 in Haridwar, just after a few days of new year celebration completion by a huge number of lovers around the globe.
The Kumbh Mela has the most weightage in the Hindu religion and visualized in old Indian literature and Purans. There is much evidence that shows that the Kumbh is not the newest festival in Indian land or culture.
The Indian land continuously hosting the Kumbh Mela in four different cities (Haridwar, Nasik, Ujjain & Prayagraj) at different times from the early Vedic age. In the ocean churning time, when nectar came out from the sea, the god and demon started a fight to owning the nectar. In this battle, nectar fell in these four cities. Due to this incident, Kumbh Mela started in these cities.
Special & normal bathing date
Due to this incident, where the nectar fell, the big mass come here to feel the churning incidence and take the dip in the here's river. Thus the Kumbh Mela started in these cities and still on. The bathing time plays the most impartance role in the sacred dip because of the huge mass and great sages prefer to take the dip at the same time when nectar fell. And they also give impartance to sun rising date. This day call the special bathing date of Kumbh Mela and the date wherein the time is not important for the bath is a normal bathing date.
Haridwar Kumbh Mela 2021 bathing date
Haridwar Kumbh Mela 2021 will start in January and will end in May. The Makar Sankranti 14 January 2021 will be its first bathing festival and Vaisakh Purnima 26 May 2021 will be its last bathing festival. The more details with normal & special bathing date given as...
मकर संक्रांति (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) पौष पूर्णिमा (महत्व स्नान / स्नान)
11 फरवरी, 2021 16 फरवरी, 2021
मौनी अमावस्या (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) बसंत पंचमी (महत्व स्नान / स्नान)
27 फरवरी, 2021 11 मार्च, गुरुवार 2021
माघ पूर्णिमा (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) महाशिवरात्रि (शाही / शाही स्नान)
13 मार्च, शनि 2021 28 मार्च, संडे, 2021
फाल्गुनी अमावस्या (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) फाल्गुन पूर्णिमा (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान)
11 अप्रैल, रविवार 12 अप्रैल, सोमवार, 2021
चैत्र अमावस्या (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) सोमवती अमावस्या (शाही / शाही स्नान)
13 अप्रैल, मंगलवार, 2021 14 अप्रैल, बुधवार, 2021
नव हिंदू संवत्सर (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) माशा संक्रांति (शाही / शाही स्नान)
21 अप्रैल, बुधवार, 2021 27 अप्रैल, मंगलवार, 2021
राम नवमी (महत्व स्नान / स्नान) चेतन पूरनमाशी (शाही / शाही स्नान)
11 मई, मंगलवार, 2021 26 मई, बुधवार, 2021
वैशाख अमावस्या (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान) वैशाख पूर्णिमा (महत्वपूर्ण स्नान / स्नान)
Haridwar Kumbh Mela Rituals
Hindu religion is the oldest and still live religion in the world. This
religion is the finest product of many science mixtures as astrology, Yog &
Asana, Ayurveda, philosophy, politics, Tantra & Mantra, etc. The ritual is
the part of pilgrim's faith and trust in discussed science, that has the
tag line बहुजन हिताय बहुजन सुखाय.
Haridwar Kumbh Mela is a traditional Hindu festival in India. This time Kumbh Mela is going to very special as the holiest city Haridwar is hosting this time. The holy city Haridwar is the epicenter of Hindu religion in India and the land of various Hindu religious activities as Ashrams (Shanti Kunj, Saptarishi, Vyas), Ghats (Hari Ki Pauri, Gau, Subhas & Ashti Parvath), temples (Haridwar, Bharat Mata, Mansa Devi) cleaned Ganga Jal and natural stoned riverbank.
The big mass of men from different parts of the world gathers Haridwar Kumbh Mela and take a sacred bath to wash their sins. After took the dip in sacred Ganga water the pilgrims don't forget to collect the Ganga Jal in a clean pot and put the pot at the holiest place at their home. It this also believed that after sprinkle the Ganga Jal at home their home also become holy as his body.
The purpose of the Indians
observes those traditions is not only spiritual. It is to tribute their love and
compassion for the Almighty God. One of the numerous rituals they observe is
the ritual of the ‘sacred tub’ or ‘holy bathing’. Bathing within the holy
rivers is appeared as very sacred to all Hindus.
The Ganges or Ganga river name as 'Maa Gange' through Hindu devotees and does not forget to be a sacred holy goddess, and to bathe in it gives purification. Every day devotees crowds accumulate on ghats to take a ritual tub to cleanse their sins. Apparently, the ritual was to dunk below 3 instances - one to cleanse the sins of the past, one for the present, and one for destiny. Indians are very God-fearing human beings as well as very spiritual.
The sacred bath, Ganga Aarti, Kalpvas, and Pind Daan are the main activities performed by mass devotees as below...
Kumbh Mela Sacred bath-
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| Pilgrims sacred dip |
The many Hindu Purans, literature, and notes describe that sacred bath in the Ganga river makes the holy man and his peaceful mental state. It also believes that the sacred dip in Ganga Jal makes the sin-free man. The pilgrims from most parts of the world could be seen here, as they want to reach here anyhow there once in a life for a sacred bath. There is much Hindu literature that defines that sacred bath in holy Ganga has very important but if anyone takes a sacred bath in Shahi Snan day will be most beneficial for his family and ancestors. This can be identified on any Shahi Snan day where at Kumbh Mela administration makes more exercise for normal public and Hindu monks or priests. On this day everyone likes to take a sacred bath in the holy river. At that time the land becomes short for huge crowed and stand on feet would be challenging. Thus administration gives separate time to Naga monks and the public to complete their sacred bath.
Haridwar Ganga Aarti-
Kalpvas-
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| Kalpawasi's Dhyan & Pooja |
Kalpavas has the most important in the Kumbh Mela ritual, it is a very tough ritual task for pilgrims who come to Haridwar. Kalpavasi pilgrims take Ganga oaths that they will reside one month at Ganga bank, will take a thrice sacred bath in Ganga, and will have a time meal and the rest time in a day will do Pooja and god’s pray. This ritual makes pilgrim as a monk as they awake before sunrise, donate as capacity, and do will do Satsang & Snakeertan, nonviolence.
Pind Daan-
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| Pind Daan for late family member |
The Hindu religion says as family binding religion, here pilgrims pray to unbind from sins for himself and for his family. There are many kinds of literature, notes, and Purans (Garun Puran) in the Hindu religion that describes Pind Daan. Also, the religion has rituals there a pilgrim binds with his ancestors and forefathers. As a pilgrim loves his family, he prays to God for his family's safe the same he prays for his ancestors and forefathers by Pind Daan. In Pind Daan, he prays to god for his forefather and ancestor safe and happy. Here he donates the Pind (a symbol of his forefather and ancestor) to river, cow, and birds.
