Can India's great river and a culture more than 3,500 years old survive the pressures of the 21st century? And there it is, the holy Ganges, it's a river that is revered as a Goddess, the reason i'm starting my journey here is because above this poin

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I am going on a series of astonishing adventures. Traveling along three of the mightiest rivers on the planet.These rivers have given rights to some of the world's greatest civilizations. For centuries, we washed their life-giving waters and feared t

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From their origins of melting glacier in the high Himalayas, thewaters of Ganges descend more than 12,000 feet, carving their way throughprecipitous gorges. There is half a mile drop. Although the Ganges is steepedin history and religious tradition,

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Have there any connection between Shiva and the Gangers? When you see the huge drag loss that Shiva has, and that's he is supposed to have tamed. The untamed ...Gangers. In his drag loss, yeah. So the Gangers close through his drag loss like the hill

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In 1968 the Beetles visited a religious retreat here known as an ashram for some soul searching and chanting, like them and hundreds of thousands of travellers who've since followed in their foot steps, i was going to be staying at an ashram. Looking

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Swami is also head of foundations sponsoring free schools, a clinic, orphanages, and he is trying to organize a cleanup of the river Ganges. I'm very well, thank you, sorry to keep you waiting. Welcome home. Thank you very much indeed. Everything is

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We're travelling along the Ganges, travelling down the Ganges, and i just want to know if you could perhaps help us to understand why is the Ganges so sacred to Indians? Ganga and me has a very special relation, when i was on the banks of Ganga, i co

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It was a chilly morning, and I've been asked to wear what felt like a giant nappy. The emphasis in this class was on meditation and prayer as well as the correct physical posture. I was a natural.-How was that for you? -Good. -Why are you here? -Oh,

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As well as attending yoga classes, some residents here volunteer to take part in service, including helping out with cleaning and cooking.-Hi, ladies. What brought you here? Are you resdients or are you guests? -Yes, I'm a resident here. -How long ha

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And this evening Abra and I were joining them. You must stop for flower and fire to Ganga. Flowers and fire. Yeah. Flowers? Yes, those are meant for that. So do we get one of these? It's a honor, it's on me. There is a fire, okay 100 Rupees, less tha

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In Kampool the river is effectively dead. No one ever thought this would happen. All the rubbish and sewage from the city goes into the river Ganges. Kampool has 400 tanneries. They also drain their poisonous water into the Ganges. Rack showed me a c

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-We're just coming into the city of Varanasi. It's one of the oldest continued things inhabit its citizens in the world. It's a place that's said to be as old as Babylon.The same religious rituals have been practiced in the temples here for more than

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I don't really understand, Hinduism the faith teaches respect and love for nature, this is the sacred Ganges, why are Indians doing this to the Ganges? Even i can't understand this, this is the river we worship and revere and whose waters we consider

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Temples are center of the trait which is worthy around 3 billion pounds a year.As we drove into the city there are treated animal hides everywhere I looked.Tenarays here clean all the heights come from water bufflow which are reviewed by most Hindus.

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-What was he saying?-He's translating the interactions which *** in Hindi. -Very ancient language, I think. -Yeah. And he's saying that whatever we are saying, the prayers, say that Mother Ganga is the main source of life. As night falls, the priests

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With so many people coming to the city of Varanasi to die, close to the Ganges, funerals are big business here, families go to great lengths to ensure their loved ones are cremated on the river bank, thus securing their eternal salvation. At the main

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What's it saying? It's saying that S like our God you have taken our India to a different level. The villagers are hoping tourists will stop by their new shrine and no doubt buy a few souvenirs. I was on the final leg of my journey, my route took me

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Basically India has the ability to turn off the taps on the river Ganges at this point. But Indias neighbor has paid high price. Since the barrage was completed in the 1970s, the Bangladesh government says the water flowing into the country has been

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I had come half-way round the World to see this sight 我曾环绕地球半圈专程来看这景观。 and had traveled days in such terrific heat that a sunstroke was as much to be feared as a stroke of lightning. 在旅行的那几天里,天气非常

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