05/10/2026
Every day, 24 hours a day, the bodies of the recently deceased are carried to the Ganga by family. They are washed blessed and cremated on the river banks. For Indian Hindus this is not a sorrowful occasion. To have one’s ashes taken to the Ganga is said to release the soul from reincarnation back to the eternal state of bliss of being one with the cosmos. 🙏