Mystic India
Experience India's Spirituality with Pratichi Mathur

Varanasi,
the love of my
life....
Pratichi

It is often said that that there's no better way to hedge your bets on that next incarnation than to die in Varanasi, where your body can be cast into the holy river for a watery burial.

It is the belief that the holy Ganges cleanses all sins and ensures a release from the cycle of rebirths. Many elderly and ill people come to Varanasi to die, and old Sadhus (men who have given up their worldly possessions for a life of absolute spiritual existence) congregate along the river banks.

The ancient city it was ancient even when Buddha preached there in 530 BC is home to over a million people.

Mark Twain visited over a century ago and commented that Varanasi was "older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together".