The Kumbha Mela forms a major part of India pilgrimage tour.The fair occurs four times in every twelve years, once at each of the four locations. Each twelve-year cycle includes the Maha Kumbha Mela at Prayag. It is attended by millions of people, making it the largest pilgrimage gathering around the world.Travel Point India takes you on Hindu Pilgrimage tour where you can visit the Kumbha Mela.
Many pilgrims visit the Maha Kumbha and take a ritual bath at a predetermined time,other activities include, religious discussions, devotional singing, mass feeding of holy men and women and the poor, and religious assemblies where doctrines are debated and standardized. Kumbha Mela is the most sacred of all the Hindu pilgrimages. The Maha Kumbha Mela is held every twelve years on dates selected by astrologers to be the most auspicious. The name means "festival of the pot" and is derived from Hindu mythology. The story is that some Hindu gods churned a sea of milk to obtain an elixir that could give eternal life. On their journey they stopped four places to rest before carrying the pot to heaven and each time they stopped they spilled a little rendering those spots holy. Among the other three spots where Kumbha Mela is held, Allahabad event is the largest.
Pilgrims come from all over the world to bathe in the holy rivers where the ambrosia was spilled. They believe that, by bathing during the Kumbha Mela, they will be cured of all evils and receive salvation. The waters of the holy confluence of three sacred rivers, the Ganga, the Yamuna, and the invisible river Saraswati, are determined to be charged with positive energy at certain times picked out by astrologers as being the most auspicious.
During the Kumbha Mela, which lasts almost two months.Scholars have found evidence of the beginnings of the Kumbha Mela as long ago as 3464 B.C. In 643 A.D. its popularity has grown as transportation technology improved in the last century.
With Travel Point India you can visit the Maha Kumbha Mela which is an incredible spectacle every year. Pilgrims, spectators, media and vendors come from all over. Gurus give teachings, sadhus display their practices and people participate in elaborate processions and rituals.
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