BEGIN AFRESH WITH A NEW MIND AND ATTITUDE :
The great Kumbh tradition seeks to continually remind us of the call of the higher mind, of how the human body itself is the kumbh, the pot, and how the churning of desires within is required for the nectar of knowledge to be generated.
The ancients set down an elaborate 12-year cycle for a meeting ground of saints and the vast lay majority, sannyasis and seekers, as an attempt to refocus and reorient the mind towards nobler instincts. This 12-year cycle was set according to planetary configurations, felt by the ancients to be spiritually beneficial, and supposed to create a highly charged matrix of energy to propel the mind to search for deeper meaning.
The Kumbh became an opportunity to pause and reflect, to reassess life’s priorities. Bathing in the Ganga is symbolic of washing away the ‘old’ mind and its way of thinking, and beginning afresh with a ‘new’ mind and attitude. The Kumbh helps the aam aadmi to transform by mingling with renunciates and monks in an ambience of devotion and vairagya.
Om Namah Shivay.
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