Achieving Moksha
This picture is not a stolen image, there is a story behind this.
I know this sadhu since a few years, we never had a real conversation but when we meet we say hello to each other.
He always allows me to take a few pictures of him and he never asks me anything, like most of the people who live on the ghats he knows who I am and what I am doing in Varanasi (Benaras).
This was shot in May near Nepali ghat along the Ganges.
It was still very hot, we were all expecting the monsoon which didn’t come this summer and this man was avoiding the sun at the entrance of a hidden passage which leads to the city.
I knew he didn’t see me coming, I enjoyed taking a few natural shots of what he was doing and when he realized I was there he burst laughing, he enjoyed that picture when he saw it on the screen of my camera.
Becoming a sadhu is a difficult lifestyle.
Sadhus are considered to be legally dead to the country of India, they have to die onto themselves and may be required to attend their own funeral before following a guru for many years until they have enough experience to strike out on their own.
This life of renunciation is described as the fourth stage of life in the classical Sanskrit literature of the Hindu tradition.
Achieving Moksha
This picture is not a stolen image, there is a story behind this.
I know this sadhu since a few years, we never had a real conversation but when we meet we say hello to each other.
He always allows me to take a few pictures of him and he never asks me anything, like most of the people who live on the ghats he knows who I am and what I am doing in Varanasi (Benaras).
This was shot in May near Nepali ghat along the Ganges.
It was still very hot, we were all expecting the monsoon which didn’t come this summer and this man was avoiding the sun at the entrance of a hidden passage which leads to the city.
I knew he didn’t see me coming, I enjoyed taking a few natural shots of what he was doing and when he realized I was there he burst laughing, he enjoyed that picture when he saw it on the screen of my camera.
Becoming a sadhu is a difficult lifestyle.
Sadhus are considered to be legally dead to the country of India, they have to die onto themselves and may be required to attend their own funeral before following a guru for many years until they have enough experience to strike out on their own.
This life of renunciation is described as the fourth stage of life in the classical Sanskrit literature of the Hindu tradition.