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Rishikesh is located in the foothills of the Himalayas. It's the yoga capital of the world, mix with new age ideology and pilgrims going to Gangotri.
A massive bull flicking sand in the streets off rishikesh, India. I managed to capture this shot with my xf35 mm before the bull chased me off.
Rishikesh, 2011.
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The Ganges, a couple of kilometers above Rishikesh, just before it flows out of the Himalayan ranges
Ganges River/India (In Hinduism, water has the importance of physical and spiritual cleanliness and well-being, a striving to attain purity and avoid pollution. This widespread aspiration lends itself to a reverence for water as well as the integration of water into most Hindu rituals, as it is believed that water has spiritually cleansing powers.
• Holy places are usually located on the banks of rivers, coasts, seashores and mountains. Sites of convergence between land and two, or even better three, rivers, carry special significance and are especially sacred. Sacred rivers are thought to be a great equalizer. For example, in the Ganges, the pure are thought to be made even more pure, and the impure have their pollution removed if only temporarily. In these sacred waters, the distinctions imposed by castes are alleviated, as all sins fall away.
• Every spring, the Ganges River swells with water as snow melts in the Himalayas. The water brings life as trees and flowers bloom and crops grow. This cycle of life is seen as a metaphor for Hinduism.
• Water represents the "non-manifested substratum from which all manifestations derive" and is considered by Hindus to be a purifier, life-giver, and destroyer of evil.
• Water is a symbol of fertility, absence of which can cause barrenness, sterility leading to death....[quote: Nikhil Mundra, scienceofhinduism.blogspot.com]
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