A time for purification

The Maha Kumba Mela is probably the world's greatest event.

- CHARLIE HOGG

In 2019, the estimate was that over the few weeks of the Kumbh Mela, 200 million took part, and on the most auspicious day the estimate was around 50 million people. There is no greater event in the world than this event of people coming together with a common aim to really elevate themselves, purify themselves, and become free from their own past karmic story. The Kumbh symbolises our common wish for purification and renewal, and freedom from the burden of sin. I visited the Ganges 50 years ago, where the Kumba Mela takes place, and what is at the heart of this symbolic ritual of bathing, is to become pure. Because, in the heart of each human soul is the desire for the soul to become pure; in our memory is the experience of purity being the basis for peace and happiness.