Inside India’s Most Sacred City: Varanasi Revealed Documentary Spiritual & Cultural - AMP

What if one city could free your soul from the cycle of reincarnation? 🔔 Subscribe and join us on this journey around the world → https://bit.ly/GO_ASIA 00:00 The Eternal City on the Ganges 02:42 The 88 Sacred Ghats 05:37 Who Is Lord Shiva? 08:44 Shravan: The Pilgrimage Begins 11:15 The Sacred Lingam of Kashi 14:19 Darshan — Seeing the Divine 18:05 The Legend of the Blue-Throated God 21:28 A City Between Tradition and Politics 27:02 Inside the Cremation Rituals 29:50 The Eternal Flame of Manikarnika 33:59 Shiva Nataraja — The Cosmic Dance 42:54 Two Million Pilgrims 45:12 The Arati Ceremony of Light 49:38 The Mystery of Varanasi Nestled on the banks of the Ganges, Varanasi, formerly Benares, located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is considered one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. Dedicated to Shiva, it is a place of pilgrimage and one of the 7 holy cities of Hinduism. According to the Hindu faith, dying or being cremated there allows the soul to be liberated by ending the cycle of reincarnations. Varanasi exudes an atmosphere like no other with its palaces that soar towards the sky, the multiple rites in the river, the sacred cows meandering by the thousands and the temples which spirituality falls between mysticism and mystery. It is in the sacred month of Shravan, which falls in August during the monsoon, that Varanasi takes another dimension with the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who converge by foot from all over the country. WATCH NEXT: Southern India’s Hidden Rituals and Timeless Temples    • Southern India’s Hidden Rituals and Timele...   INDIA: Could Ayurveda from Kerala Be the Oldest Science of Life?    • INDIA: Could Ayurveda from Kerala Be the O...   The Teardrop of India: What are the Sri Lanka’s Sacred and Natural Wonders?    • The Teardrop of India: What are the Sri La...   INDIA, ON ROUTE TO MYSTICAL VARANASI Directed by M. DUBOIS All Rights Reserved #Varanasi #IndiaDocumentary #Hinduism #SpiritualIndia #GangesRiver #Shiva #ShravanFestival #IndianPilgrimage #ManikarnikaGhat #SacredCities #ReligiousDocumentary #GOAsia