Kumbh Mela: The Cosmic Misattribution The Kumbh Mela is a blend of पौराणिक कथा and allegorical stories (रूपक-संबंधी ), historical events, and modern adaptations, reflecting the complex interplay of religious beliefs, colonial encounters, and national aspirations. All religions have placed great emphasis on the sacredness of certain localities and have either enjoined or recommended pilgrimages to them with great insistence. Large rivers, mountains and forests have always been venerated as sacred places. The word Tirtha 1 , occurs frequently in the Rgved and other Vedic Samhitas. Tirtha, therefore, means a locality or spot or expanse of water which gives rise to the accumulation of righteousness (merit) owing to its own peculiar nature without any adventitious circumstance. Puranas 1 and ancient texts do describe the importance of places and rivers, as Tirtha, and bathing in such holy rivers, freed the person from Sins. These places are all over India. They ar...
The cosmos has a lot of hidden facts, and we are not aware of them. Humans have been learning from the heavens and updating their lives since ancient times. In doing so, we have forgotten the efforts of the previous generation who had opened the cosmos to us. Some facts we knew, but had no proof of, as we unfold and update, the facts confirm their findings. My effort is to bring out these fundamentals as given in ancient Hindu texts
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