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This is a beautiful documentary on Varanasi by two New Yorkers.\u00a0 I think they have done an excellent work and in many ways I admire their commitment to what they love doing!<\/p>\n

Varanasi, India: \u201cBeyond\u201d<\/a> from Cale Glendening<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Varanasi is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world!\u00a0 And it has been known as a place where, if someone ever died, would get liberated.\u00a0 Some who go there say that the act of just visiting the Ghat where dead bodies are cremated is bound to give you a unique perspective of life itself.\u00a0 Something that one of the young man also says.<\/p>\n

Sadhguru, an Enlightened Master, who takes meditators to this city says the following about Varanasi. (Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Another name for Kashi is \u2018Maha-smashana\u2019 which means \u2018Great cremation ground\u2019 and the central point, the core of Kashi is Manikarnik, where at least one corpse will always be burning. The point is that a necessary atmosphere was created for those who died and for those who were burnt there because people were looking at life and death as a means of rising beyond the elemental play, the elemental hive created in the form of individual body and the cosmic body. If anybody penetrated these seven layers, for sure he would have risen \u2013 he would be beyond the play of five elements. Nowadays it has just become a belief, but back then, there was a live process of Enlightenment and the city was constructed as a tool for enlightenment where if a person went through the seven layers, by the time he reached Manikarnik, he would be a realized being. ~ Sadhguru<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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