Khajuraho toVaranasi
Monday, 21 September 2009
Jackie Lallier wrote: "We were up at 5:45 and on our way to visit the Chandelas temple complexes where their erotic stone carvings symbolize the important role oflove in Hindu culture. The Karma Sutra teaches the 84 techniques oflove. We explored the many, many
temples. A 10:30 we met and went to the Jain "vegetarian" Parshwanth Temple that is "non-attachment" (nude). They believe in no concept of God, but self-salvation.
At 1 :30 we were back at our hotel to pack up, have lunch and were on our plane at 1 :45 to Varanasi where we arrived at 2:45. This is the holiest city to the Hindu, supposedly considered the city of Shiva - the oldest living city in the world. The old name is "Kasah" - City of Lights «Spiritual Light). It was known as the City of Art. Hindus try to come here at last once in a lifetime. At 4:30 we met in the Radisson Varanasi lobby and all took a tuk-tuk on a wild ride through the old city streets full of motorcycles, 4 people on a motor scooter(s), mules, cows, dogs, bicycle rickshaws, hand-pulled rickshaws, cars, tuk-tuks, bicycles, etc. We walked through the bazaar and then got on a boat and went down the Ganges River to a cremation site. We were told the body is washed before it is brought in on a stretcher before cremation and the family comes back after 48 hoUl's. The ashes are then taken out into the river. Holy men and children are not cremated - their bodies are taken out into the river and put in the bottom. We went back to the main ghat for a ceremony and then had another horrendous ride again in an open rickshaw to a nice restaurant by our hotel. "
Jackie Lallier wrote: "We were up at 5:45 and on our way to visit the Chandelas temple complexes where their erotic stone carvings symbolize the important role oflove in Hindu culture. The Karma Sutra teaches the 84 techniques oflove. We explored the many, many
temples. A 10:30 we met and went to the Jain "vegetarian" Parshwanth Temple that is "non-attachment" (nude). They believe in no concept of God, but self-salvation.
At 1 :30 we were back at our hotel to pack up, have lunch and were on our plane at 1 :45 to Varanasi where we arrived at 2:45. This is the holiest city to the Hindu, supposedly considered the city of Shiva - the oldest living city in the world. The old name is "Kasah" - City of Lights «Spiritual Light). It was known as the City of Art. Hindus try to come here at last once in a lifetime. At 4:30 we met in the Radisson Varanasi lobby and all took a tuk-tuk on a wild ride through the old city streets full of motorcycles, 4 people on a motor scooter(s), mules, cows, dogs, bicycle rickshaws, hand-pulled rickshaws, cars, tuk-tuks, bicycles, etc. We walked through the bazaar and then got on a boat and went down the Ganges River to a cremation site. We were told the body is washed before it is brought in on a stretcher before cremation and the family comes back after 48 hoUl's. The ashes are then taken out into the river. Holy men and children are not cremated - their bodies are taken out into the river and put in the bottom. We went back to the main ghat for a ceremony and then had another horrendous ride again in an open rickshaw to a nice restaurant by our hotel. "
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