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Haridwar



Welcome all visitors. For more than two months did not provide any new blog posts. In part dlatgo that moves between different continents and countries, and partly because I did not have enough viable Internet connection. From October 17 I'm in India. First, 3-week stop I made in Haridwar, about 230 km in the direction ółnocnowschodnim from the capital Delhi. I was staying in the ashram on the outskirts of Tripurayoga Haridwaru in Kankhal. Haridwar in Translation is a "gateway to God." The city lies at the podnuży Himalaji at a height of over 300 m above sea level exactly where Ganga flowing from these great mountains turns into a plane. Ganges is a sacred river Hindus as they believe because it comes straight from the head of God Shiva. The Himalayas are considered for centuries the home of the Gods. Being built at the edge of the Ganges from time immemorial temple and ashram in which revered Vedic Gods.

Kankhalu is in a unique environment, I felt as if I entered a different world. Everywhere people are praying that you see and hear. At every step of the temples and their gods bow down before the people. From very early morning around bajany SOUNDS ie sung prayer, which echoed the bells. Morning in the temples begins in the morning Aarti, food is an offering to the Gods, then they get food and cattle, cows and fish in the Ganges and then only breakfast for the people.
Kankhal is a very old district Haridwaru lying at the edge of the Ganges. I visited few bazaars in the city. Bazaar is a shopping center with small shops, one in the second and streets just wide, two meters or not. Everywhere the sacred cows, the streets dirty, foully, air pollution spaleninami. Fully and popular motorcycles or mopeds autorikszy here for 2 or 3 people. They are also available and cheap rickshaws

cycling. On the narrow streets often lack the space for the sometimes appearing cars. Everywhere unlikely trafik. Vehicles verge almost of itself. Countless crowds and bustle like a hive. This is India. Haridwar is one of the seven holy places in India, a pilgrimage center.
People visit the temple and countless bathe in the holy river. They believe that the Ganges water cleanses the spirit and opens the way to Nirvana, the ultimate liberation.

In some places the water is very dirty. Hindus believe that the Ganges cleanses all the time, thrown into the river dead body. Haridwar is one of the towns near Varanasi, where he is Kumbha Mela is. It's a great celebration circulating between the three cities every four years or in a city celebration that takes place every twelve years. Hindus believe that it is bathed in the Ganges in these cities during the Kumbha Mela gives them immortality. At the ceremony of millions of pilgrims come from all over the country. This year, the Kumbha Mela held in Haridwarze and during the period from January to April 2010 there is expected about 10 millions of pilgrims. The city has long been preparing for this ceremony. They are built among other steps at the edge of the river to help people secure bath. Upcoming are also places to overnight, trimmed are also great golf on the banks of the Ganges in tents. Kumbha Mela experienced a foretaste of the end of October when Haridwarze celebrated for two days, ie winter transition. transition years in the winter. In those days thousands of pilgrims came to Haridwaru. Whole families kąpały together in the Ganges. Wherever the eye does not reach was the sea of \u200b\u200bpeople, lots of buses and packed trains and railway stations. People slept wherever she could in the open air. The weather at this time, the day a pleasant, sunny, very warm and sometimes cold nights, the temperature sometimes dropped to a few degrees C.
until late at night you could hear the chanting of prayers echoing around the temples and ashram located. Ashram now increasingly play the role of small hotels and guest houses for pilgrims. Are often led by monks. Ashram have harytatywne account the different activities. The fee for a place to sleep and food is often
grants.

Tripurayoga Ashram

in the ashram where he stopped in Kankhal leading monk Swami Amlananda, raises a number of boys from poor families, it sends to schools and care for their education. Swami also leads to the public consultation, and deals with the promotion of a certain race chodowli Indian cow, which is very resistant to high temperatures. With global warming on Earth is estimated that only this race has a chance of survival, "says Swami Amlananda. In the Ashram are Normally two cows and sometimes for a short time there are more. The activities of the ashram is based solely on grants. The ashram is located a few rooms for pilgrims, sometimes held here yoga courses. People in the ashram are very warm and I felt welcome and at home. Eating a good, modest, vegetariańskie and organic. The dining room and sit them on the floor like the old days. The remainder work in the ashram, in the kitchen, economics, communications and supervises and conducts yoga nun Dharana taking care of everyone and everything is always helpful.

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In Haridwarze visited several of the Temples. One of them is a great guru Tempel, women, very famous and revered in India for imieiu Annandamaji. They say he was an incarnation of love on earth. She died in 1982. In templu in Haridwarze find her body. Every day there is wieczorm service that receives hundreds of people. I met Swami Vijaananda there too, the Frenchman who came to India 60 years ago as a young 37 year old doctor seeking meaning in life. When he met Anandamaji it was so enchanted that he was still with her and accompanied her to the end of her earthly life. It is now well-known figure not only in India. He wrote and published several books. Swami Vijananda gives daily darshan at the temple Anandamaji which people come.

Hindu wedding in

Rector poblizkiej the school has invited several people from the ashram for the wedding to your friends. Indians are having a big wedding and invite hundreds of people. Marriage is a whole long ceremonja starting in the morning in both Ms. and the groom's home. In the morning groom parade through the streets, beautifully dressed in a horse by an entourage of family and the orchestra at the

front. In the evening after separate ceremonies in the family homes of young people arrive in a beautifully przystrojonych separate carriages for the evening, meet and then the wedding begins. Young couple sitting in big chairs on the stage, hardly moving, they look like dolls.
We can be photographed with the invited. Guests are treated to lots of various food and drink. Are given all kinds of cakes, desserts, all very sweet. Foreigners are always welcome and honored. People will be happy to talk to us, treated to and asked for a joint photograph. This was undoubtedly a great experience for us. Indians believe that getting married for seven lives. They believe that they do not necessarily have to meet the next life as a husband and wife, can a brother and sister or mother and child. Often, still in India, parents choose a partner for the children. If parents can not afford a wedding dressing siblings or other family members to help them do this. Preparation of weddings is a matter of honor and it is very important for the Indians.