India's craziest religious worship of the "Great Pot Festival" Tens of millions of pilgrims bathing naked in the Ganges River

The Maha Kumbh Meka or Great Pitcher Festival, also known as the Holy Water Bathing Festival, is the world's largest religious Hindu gathering and one of the most attended festivals in the world. The Maha Kumbh Festival originated from ancient Indian myths and legends. It is said that Hindu gods and demons fought over a pot because the pot contained the elixir of life. As a result, the pot was accidentally knocked over, and four drops of the elixir fell to Allahabad, Hariwa, Uzbek and Nasi in India.

To this day, these four cities celebrate the Great Pot Festival every three years. Among the four cities, Allahabad is recognized as the most blessed by the gods because it is the confluence of India's three holy rivers. Since then, devout believers have gone to Allahabad, located at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamna rivers, to bathe every 12 years, praying to wash away their sins. Therefore, the Great Pot Festival is held in Allahabad every six years. The minimum number of people participating each time is over a million, and the number is over a hundred million.

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starts on January 9 and lasts for 42 days. During the festival, Hindus bathe in the Ganges to cleanse their past sins. As people bathe in the river, many others gathered on the river bank and patiently waited for their turn to bathe. Once they walked into the cold river, whether they were men in underwear, women in sari, or naked children, they all sang Hindu scriptures loudly.

In addition to believers and ascetics, India's "Great Pot Festival" also gathers a large number of sages, including Venerable Ones, Guru, and Yogis. The ascetic monks who came from the mountains to participate in the festival lived here in temporary tents. In addition to meditating and praying every day, they blessed the believers who came to worship. Because many believers believe that when they come to worship these "living gods", they can gain religious power, and some saints even have considerable divine power. For example, for perspective or mind reading, some people rely on extreme meditation and yoga practice to increase their spiritual strength. There are chanting sounds from morning to night. The camps they live in are full of the atmosphere of cosmic power.

The ascetics have no appetite for food and clothing, return everything to zero, smear their bodies with gray, and enter an immortal world. They choose a simple, isolated life to escape the pain of strife in the world. There are also many masters who have never cut their hair after becoming ascetic monks. Those hair covered with cow dung and dust are more than ten feet long. They hope to fill this with a special investment and memory in their spiritual realm.