George Harrison, singing sensation and member of The Beatles, was one of pop history's biggest influencers. He was comfortable in the skin of a superstar. But when it came to making sense of life and its misadventures. he dipped into India's fountainhead of spirituality. On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, he was "saved from an electric storm by chanting, Hare Rama Hare Krishna.
He called himself a yogi in plain clothes, a member of Krishna Consciousness. He chanted the maha mantra: Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, and even used it as inspiration for My Sweet Lord, a 1971 track that topped the charts worldwide.
It's possibly this feeling of oneness that Avdheshanand Giri Maharaj, who heads the Juna Akhara, a sect of sadhus, refers to when he says, "What is our beauty? It is unity in diversity. It is our culture, ideology, that's accepting of all."
The collective faith of millions that makes the Kumbh Mela possible is a reflection of this need to connect, congregate and discover oneself on the way to seeking the highest possibility of liberation. Moksha.
Often termed the 'Disneyland of spirituality, it is the single largest Hindu festival. hosting devotees, wide-eyed foreigners, religious leaders, sadhus, babas and fakirs from a variety of sects or muths (institutes). A sea of believers, the woody aroma of wafting smoke, the air reverberating with chants of Har Har Mahadev is enough to restore your faith in humanity.
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