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Within infnite myths lies an eternal truth.

Who sees it all? All these untold tales are

lost when man is burned into his own

ames at the end o his lie cycle. In Kashi

one o those places is Harishchandra ghat

where the truthul king was bought byhandala and worked or the preser!ation

 

"As I preach death# I am the soul owner.$

 %he Aghori are ascetic &hai!a &adhus# who

engage in post'mortem rituals. &itting upon

the ashes o the dead# smearing them on

their body and making (ewellery out o the

human corpes bones# specially Kapala )skull*

is their ideal identity. %he beholders o

+oksha# Aghori gurus posses intense eremitic

power o healing# transcending through social

 %he truthul kings duty that e!en his

wie couldn,t deny. %he mythological

king # -a(a Harishchandra had sold

himsel and his wie and son to pay

the hiksha o Kaushika

)/ishwamitra*. He was bought by a

handal. ut as known to be the

preser!er o truth and duty# he asked

or cremate ee or the cremation o

his own son as it was his master,s

order. %he 0ueen who had nothing to

o1er e2cept her saree# remo!ed it

and o1ered it as air payment. -a(aHarishchandra depicted here great

wisdom and peace e!en in times o

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"I can call spirits rom the !asty deep. Why

so can I# or so can any man3 ut will they

come when you do call or them.$

&ometimes the spirits don,t call call you# you

are summoned by them and the god whoowns death. %he last (ourney through the

narrow stretches o lie depict the !agueness

we built when we let the world that we

"%he boundaries which di!ide 4ie rom

death are at best shadowy and !ague.

Who shall say where the one ends# and

where the other begins?$

 %he shallowness in lie is replaced through

the calm o death when obli!ion takes

o!er the light o the li!ing. %ime ceases all

  ,

In the uneral pyre# I burn my body but

soul remains immortal as I am the deatho a body and not the soul that got

subdued in the content o Kashi. I am now

in the air mysticism that will !enture

across arallel worlds but I shall li!e on.

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In hea!en,s abode or hell,s brim3 Who shall

know where who shall go? ut the light o the

holy fre that consumes you in Kashi# relies you

o all the pains o rebirths and guilt o sins.