KUMBH MELA , THE MOTHER OF ALL PILGRIMAGES

KUMBH MELA , THE MOTHER OF ALL PILGRIMAGES 
7000 YEAR OLD MAHA KUMBH MELA ,  SAMDUDRA MANTHAN HINDU LORE,  AMRIT SOMA AMBROSIA , LIVING GANGES WATER, COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

The 7000 year old Rig Veda, written in Sanskrit, has 117 hymns about a wonder elexir by the name of Soma.  And thousands of temples have the Samudra Manthan depicted , extracting amrit by churning the ocean  .

We have drunk the Soma;

We have become immortal;

We have gone to the light;

We have found the gods   

Rig Veda 8.48 - 5000 BC

There are two main paths in Hinduism.

One is the Advaita ( non-dual ) and the other is Dwaita ( dual ) philosophies of Sanatana Dharma.

The Advaita form looks at God , as brahmAn-- the intelligent morphogenetic consciousness field , the akasha  or  the space between the whizzing electrons in an atom. 

Matter exists because of this intelligent force which holds the spiraling electrons in its orbit--  for if it drops or rises one single orbit the matter changes into something totally different.

The Dwaita form looks at God as the trinity of creator Brahma , preserver Vishnu and destroyer Shiva also known as Tamas -Rajas- Sattwa  ( represented by the Trident of Lord Shiva ) .   The modern world knows this symbol as Yin-Yang , with a mediator prong in between.

Examples:

Energy/ matter

Particle/ wave

Cathode/ anode

Conscious/ subconscious

Aerobic bacteria/ anaerobic

Catabolism/ anabolism

Potential energy/ kinetic energy

Attraction/ repulsion

Excitation/ inhibition

Birth/ decay

Static / dynamic

Organic / inorganic

Freezing/ melting

Vaporization/ condensation

Positive pole/ negative pole

North pole/ southpole magnetic

Ionization/ de-ionistaion

Clockwise vortex/ counterclockwise vortex

Absorption/ secretion

Contraction/ relaxation

Evaporation/ condensation

Conscious/ Subconscious

Left brain lobe/ Right brain lobe

These dual poles are connected via consciousness.  It is about the quantum possibility wave vibration between two poles. 

If the restraining balance or equilibrium is lost , the universe will spiral out of control and end.  This guarantees change, growth and evolution.   Lessening of Tamas or Yin- always results in increase of Rajas or Yang and vice versa.  

One cannot exist without the other and they are mutually dependent .   Balance can never be permanent—  Yin and Yang continuously devour each other – and life flows on.

Could this 11000 year old Hindu religion be invented by bumpkin shepherds , as ridiculed by new sprouted upstart religions ( having a single holy book and a mortal messiah ) ,  or by evolved seers?

On a micro scale , this  Tamas Rajas movement also known as the dance of Shiva,  is indeed the to and fro pull of the opposing forces of gods and demons . 

The ancient Vedic Maharishi seers  knew the cosmos is holographic,  including the human body.  The human body belongs to the microcosm , and it has a perfect equation with the macrocosm of the universe.  

7000 years ago, it was written in our Vedas that the tiny atom contains tremendous power.  All white men smirked and called our Vedas, the bumpkin shepherd’s verses. 

Then a massive explosion rudely woke them up.

To activate the third eye of Shiva, or to perceive higher dimensions, the pineal gland ( soul ) and the pituitary glands ( body ) must vibrate in resonance to create a field, on a micro scale. 

This is depcited on a macro scale as Samudra manthan in Hindu mythology, where huge Mount Meru is used to churn the oceans for Amrit in a to and from movement , representing vibrations..  The amrit of the ambrosia or Soma is the elusive holy grail.

Resonance can vibrate the pineal gland, to release Neuro transmitter seratonin, melatonin,  DMT, etc.  If you have a strong enough sense of consciousness you will taste a huge pituitary release in the back of your mouth and sinuses and throat, it is referred to as amrit ( mental orgasm discharge )

To the spiritual eastern mind, the story of SAMUDRA MANTHAN produces amazing acts of faith like the Kumbh Mela , which has been going on for 7000 years. This year 2013, the Maha Kumbh mela will attract 110 million pilgrims, which is more than the entire population of many large countries..

Tamas and Rajas are conscious of each other.  Amrit reveals the fractal nature of consciousness. Amrit is NOT external, it is produced inside your head.   All you need to know is how to produce it by your own mind.

The cosmic macro 5 headed serpent Vasuki is human micro DNA which gives us 5 senses.  The human micro pineal gland is cosmic macro Mount Meru.  The sea is the brahmAn field.  The Amrit is soma.  

Pineal DMT the spirit molecule that bends space-time , is the chemical messenger which links body and spirit.  

You cant observe the quantum world without your activated Pineal gland , the other 5 senses have too narrow bandwidths. Vedic maharishis had the inherent ability to go on either side of the narrow band of five human senses. the invisible below the quantum screen gives rise to the visible. 

At the time of death Seratonin and Melatonin in the brain breaks down to Dimethyltryptamine or DMT, ( C12 N2 H16 ), just after the oxygen stops circulating. This is the moment for the ultimate DMT trip.  You see your whole past life as FRACTAL dvine geometry. When you consume Soma, colours , sounds and numbers all show up as fractal geometry.

The king of Gods ( Devas ) Indra was a bit of a egomaniac.  Once he was riding on his elephant Airavata when he bumped into a seer Durvasa Muni on the way, who was famous for his short fuse. Everybody was in awe of Durvasa, and he always wore tattered clothes due to a vow of insanity he was observing.

He had with him a garland of heavenly flowers given to him by a nymph. He tossed the garland towards Indra who placed it on his elephants head showing total insensitivity. The elephant was disturbed by the strange scent of the flowers and it threw down the garland on the ground and stamped on it.

Durvasa was upset seeing the disrespect and cursed Indra, and told him that he would be thrown down from his throne, the same way the garland was thrown down.. He also cursed all the Devas and said that they would soon lose their sheen.  Indra immediately got down from the elephant and begged for forgiveness,by Durvasa would not retract the curse or even soften it, and went on his way..

When the Asuras ( demons ) heard of this they were overjoyed, and they attacked the Devas under the leadership of Bali, (the King of Kerala ). The Devas were routed in battle and Bali became king of the universe. The gods were told by Brahma to go to Vishnu for help.

Vishnu told them to strike a deal with the Asuras, and get them to join them as a team to churn amrit or ambrosia ( nectar of immortality ) from the oceans, and promise to share it 50-50 with them.. It was done long ago in the past at the end of the last precession cycle ( 25675 years cycle )  .

And Vishnu would make sure that Asuras would NOT get a drop of it. There was no other alternative as Sage Shukracharya the son of Bhrigu Rishi was on the side of the Asuras and was training them.

Shukracharya had a point to prove to the Devas who had spurned him when he offered to be their guru. They chose Sage Brihaspati son of Maharishi Angira instead. Brihaspati is known in other cultures as Zeus  or Thor.

Lord Shiva had a mantra by the name of Sanjeevani. This mantra was very powerful and could revive a dead man. He would give it only to those who pleased him. One way to please him was to hang upside down, on a high tree branch by your knees for one year. 

If you fall asleep and drop down you break you neck. You cannot talk and cannot consume food . Right below smoke would be sent up from a bonfire of dry leaves. Nobody dared to do this penance. Shukracharya was determined to please Shiva and get hold of this mantra.

Everybody was keeping keen vigilance of this penance as the one year completion date was getting near. The King of the Devas Lord Indra panicked and decided to play a bit dirty. He sent his daughter disguised as a brahmin woman past the sentries. 

She threw some dry red  chillies into the fire without anybody noticing. The acrid fumes of the chillies made Shukracharyas eyes bleed. The woman was filled with remorse.  Lord Shiva unable to tolerate this foul play immediately appeared and gave Shukracharya the mantra as a boon.

  

This churning of the ocean was an elaborate process.  Mount Mandaranchal ( Meru ) was to be the churning dasher.  Vasuki the King of serpents was to be the rope.  Vishnu avatar Kurma a tortoise would take the rotating Meru on its back.  

Smart Indra told the gods to hold the tail .  The dumb asuras held the head, and they started churning to and fro for all they were worth.  Asuras were getting scorched by flames which appeared frequently from the mouth of 5 headed Vasuki.

Pretty soon Vasuki felt the strain and vomited out deadly venom, which became so toxic and polymerizing forming a froth on the ocean , that all were scared.  This would have been the end of the world.

Lord Shiva was compassionate and drank up this poison. Shiva's consort Parvati pressed his neck so that the poison would not reach his stomach. Shiva did not die, but his neck became blue and hence his name Neel Kanthan.( blue throated ).. 

Shiva was advised by the celestial doctors not to sleep, and keep dancing, so that the poison could be burnt out and excreted . The gods took turns to amuse Shiva throughout the long night. This night is a festival in India ( Shiva ratri -- or thanks giving night for Shiva ) were Hindus fast all day , do NOT sleep at night , and have cultural festivities in all temples. Kumbh Mela of 2013, ends on 10 March 2013, which is Maha Shivaratri day.

Dhanwantari, the god of Ayurveda , in 4 armed Vishnu form -holding the Sudarsana Chakra weapon and Conch in the upper right and lefts hands.  In the other two hands he carries a pot containing the nectar of immortality and a leech. ( which is used in Susruta’s treatise 4200 BC, for vaccination )

Finally the churning was successful and Lord Dhanvantari , the god of Ayurveda rose from the ocean., with a pot containing the nectar of immortality or amrit. 

The Devas tried to vamoose with the nectar and the asuras gave it to them and snatched the pot away.

The divine eagle known to be large enough to block the sun ( a Vimana flying saucer of Vishnu ) snatched the pot and flew away.  While on the flight 4 drops fell on 4 places on earth- Prayag ( named by Muslim invaders as Allah- abad ), Hardwar, Ujain and Nasik. 

These are the four spots the Kumbh Mela, the biggest pilgrimage show on earth is held, when about 110 million pilgrims will take a dip in the holy river in 2013..

The date of Kumbh at Haridwar falls when Jupiter is in Aquarius, and Sun and Moon are in the Aries and Sagittarius zodiacs respectively.

As Jupiter takes about 11 years, 10 months and 14 days to complete its revolution around the sun, its obvious that it comes back to any specific position on its orbit on completion of nearly 12 years. Thus all these planetary configurations repeat every 12th year and, thus, Kumbh Mela also comes after the same interval.

Watch the video below to understand Quantum Consciousness -or you will NEVER understand the Kumbh Mela , like the ignorant reader who made the first comment below.

Harvard University is conducting a study on the Kumbh Mela of 2013.  They are appalled that millions of pilgrims are drinking the water while taking a bath.  

To these educated ignoramuses , I have this para.  This goes beyond the perimeter of science, folks!

Ganges water is “living water”.  

I have an experiment for you. You can take a sample of water in a bottle back to USA, keep it alongside your expensive and pure Evian water bottle,  and check it out after 100 years.  You will find that the Ganges water is intact,  while the Evian water has muddled and has algae and bacteria.

At the of the Himalayas , source it is electrically charged nano size colloids of Himalayan rock salt.   This low surface tension water contains all the 83 odd minerals required by the human body in the correct dosage, to take it to the correct vibrational state where all cells dance in harmony . 

This water is highly alkaline and has an extraordinary amount of hydrogen with an extra electron, to neutralize damaging free radicals , which cause DNA damage, diseases and ageing.

It holds high amounts of silver colloids , is highly sunbathed and oxygenated , and is indeed bio-energised miracle water”.  Low surface tension water ( normal is 73 dynes ) can store information for healing in its vibratory structure.  It easily penetrates the 75 trillion cells and mitochondrial membranes, to supply nutrients and flush away toxins. 

Human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas and music, affect the molecular structure of water, The body is very much like a sponge and is composed of trillions of chambers called cells that hold liquid.  In this sense water not only has the ability to visually reflect the environment but it also molecularly reflects the environment.

Miracle waters have been discovered throughout the world and have been responsible for thousands of unexplainable healings.  Water registers precise molecular information about the world around it, and that is extremely sensitive to these frequencies coming into it. Water remembers, or stores this information.

Even a small amount of water has enough cluster structures available to absorb whole libraries of information ( theertham in a rishi’s copper lota ).  A sadhu has a piece of cloth to cover his family—nay- personal jewels and a copper lota , and a 108 bead rudraksha mala . That is all of his personal effects inventory.

No Hindu temple is without a water body and a banyan tree.

And then we have some morons screaming that the sadhus at Kumbh mela consume cannabis—and that they are drug addicts.

Nothing is further from the truth.

Cannabis, ( Marijuana , Hemp , Bhang, Ganja ) was first brought down from the Himalayas by Lord Shiva to India -- from where it spread throughout the world.

Cannabis is mentioned in our Atharva Veda of 5000 BC.  The holy Vedas will NOT propagate anything which harms man, the planet , the flora  or the  fauna or even the insects.

Cannabis  has the natural wonder drug Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), with nil side effects.

I AM ADVOCATING CANNABIS AS A WONDER MEDICINE, AND A GOD GIVEN DRUG WHICH CAN PUT CREATIVE PEOPLE LIKE WRITERS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, INVENTORS ETC,  IN THE "ALPHA BRAIN WAVE STATE".

In deep meditation, when waves of alpha rhythms cascade across the entire brain, a resonance is possible between the human being and the planet whose heart beat is 7.83 hertz.  Energy and information which are embedded in the zero point field or akashik field are transferred.  The planet communicates with us in this primal language of frequencies. 

A living being is a  EMF field embedded within the EMF field of the earth.  Each cell's DNA as a vibrating transmitter/receiver of information.  Alpha brain Frequency of 7.83 HZ on the EEG,  is also known popularly as Schumann’s Resonance .  We all know 7.83 hz being the strongest of all, OM, the Hindu king mnatra or Schumann frequency.

7.83 HZ or the ALPHA frequency  is the gateway that leads into deeper states of consciousness.

Some therapeutic uses of smoking:  stops asthma attacks, reduces ocular pressure of those with Glaucoma, relieves nausea, stimulates appetites of chemotherapy patients and anorexics, lung expectorant, antispasmodic, reduces intensity of epileptic seizures, relieves symptoms of muscular dystrophy, relieves migraine headaches, lowers blood pressure, relaxes muscles, relieves stress, promotes a restful sleep, relieves dementia and depression, and invokes positive 'vibrations'-all without the negative, and sometimes deadly side effects of pharmaceuticals.

Studies state that cannabis or cannabinoids may be useful in treating alcohol abuse, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, collagen-induced arthritis, asthma, atherosclerosis, bipolar disorder, colorectal cancer, HIV-Associated Sensory Neuropathy depression, dystonia, epilepsy, digestive diseases gliomas, hepatitis C, Huntington's disease, leukemia, skin tumors, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Parkinson's disease, pruritus, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psoriasis, sickle-cell disease,sleep apnea, and anorexia nervosa..

I HOPE THIS POST PERSUADES WORLD GOVERNMENTS TO DE-CRIMINALIZE CANNABIS, TO ALLOW THEIR DENIZENS EXPLODE TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS,  AFTER 21ST DEC 2012,  TO UPGRADE DNA TO 12 STRAND,  AND MAKE THIS PLANET MORE PEACEFUL AND WORTH LIVING.

The Western press is full of sarcasm about the naked sadhus with ash smeared bodies.

Let me educate them.

These sadhus live in seclusion and come down from the Himalayas only for the Kumbh Mela. They are Tantrics and NOT hedonists.

Tantrics can seduce and manipulate , such is their magnetism, but they are not allowed to do that.  They could maintain huge penile erections the whole day in front of a cheering crowd and lift huge boulders with sheer prick power -- or suck water from a bowl by using the penis like a straw.

This is why most of them are naked , cover themselves in ash and mud and hold human skulls to revolt the senses of selfish learners who want a crash course in Tantra so that they can grab power in society.

They can break as many coconuts as you want with their heads , neutralize the bit of a venomous snake and you may be shocked when I tell you that this secretive sect has the amazing magic powers .

Some of them of course are fakes and NOT spiritually evolved.

These Tantrics can sit in the middle of a venomous snake pit filled with hundreds of cobras and vipers and draw a circle around them, which no snake will transgress .

They do NOT display their powers to the camera, for they shun publicity, for fear of losing their powers.

Tantra looks at life with a total vision.  It wants to look at life as it is, without.. bringing any mind in between . Tantra avoids mind and encounters life face to face,  no acceptance no rejections , simply facing that which is- in a YES YES manner.. 

They believe that nobody has ever reached to the divine by saying no to anything.  You must just float with the current. You dont struggle against the mighty river, you simply go with it.  This floating with it, relaxing with it, is Tantra.  Tantra acceptance comes out of  a deep contentment -- not out of  frustration and helplessness.  

When in the lowest you can see the highest, when even in hell you can create a heaven, then, then you have become the artist of life.

Tantric spiritual practices and rituals  aim to bring about an inner realization of the truth that "Nothing exists that is not Divine" (nāśivaṃ vidyate kvacit ) .

Tantra deconstructs all pre-conceived notions of the human condition.  This allows the person to experience total liberation and then unity with ultimate truth or reality.

Come Allahabad  Maha Kumbh Mela 2013 ,  they pour in by the millions and merge into a veritable river of humanity . They come in by overcrowded public transport,  ox carts, horses, camels, elephants, private aircraft all head for Allahabad , where three rivers Ganges, Yamiuna and the underground Saraswati meet. 

  

Some engaged in Tapasya foot slog with naked feet, chanting holy mantras, carrying mattresses and heavy bundles on their heads.  They will celebrate the greatest spiritual festival of this planet , the Kumbha Mela.

It is a massive nay enormous act of faith .  For faith is the most important thing at the Kumbh mela, and this has been going on for 7000 years.

A lot of this multitude come to attain Moksha, for they believe that a dip at the sangam at the right time will free them from their past karma .  But there are some saints and sadhus who are driven by quantum consciousness , and these selfless souls step out of their comfort zones to come here and pray for this planet and for the rest of humanity - nay- every form of animal and plant life. 

The waters are cold.

There is also a sprinking of curious foreigners of other faiths, who stare in awe at the ash smeared naked sadhus wearing marigold garland and carrying swords, tridents and spears. They take pictures to show it to more curious folks back home. For this is indeed the sight of a life time. All their  5 senses are overwhelmed like never before. There are never the same after this, something changes in them for the better, and they cant put a finger on it.

In the 7^th century Chinese traveller witnesses this spectacular scene and he wrote about it in great detail in his diary. 

This was before the Muslim and Christain invaders came to India.  India was a land of peace and harmony and joy  

Has this planet known any peace, since Christianity and Islam were born. Religions with ONE messiah and ONE holy book, which desperately need to convert others -- one by sops, the other by sword?

Of course those days there would have been many snake charmers , sadhus performing the great Indian rope trick and real Tantrics who could do telekinesis, telepathy  and mind reading rubbing shoulders with kings wearing diamonds and expensive silks , giving away real gold coins as charity.

In 2000 BC Adi Sankaracharya from Kaladi , Kerala , popularized the Kumbha Mela among the common man.

At dawn on the Makara Sankranti on Jan 14^th 2013, pilgrims dipped themselves in the cold waters  Some started minutes past midnight.  Loud chanting of "Bolo Ganga Mai ki jai  (  glory to our Mother Ganga) electrified the air. They went in wave after wave.  

Some carried lamps which looked like fireflies.  At dawn the real thing started. From the midst of the  mass of humanity came a marvelous procession announcing the official beginning of the Kumbha Mela to the sound of conches and drum beats. People danced in ecstasy to the beat of drums . The smell of agarbathi and incense filled the air.  Colorful flags and banners flew merrily everywhere.

At the head of the procession were the famous naked nagas . These holy tantrics did NOT come there for selfish reasons.  They rushed in with their marigold garland and willies swinging and tridents held high.  They splashed the sacred Ganges waters upon each other and frolicked in glee like small children, their matted dreadlocks dripping . 

Behind them rushed solemn saffron clad gurus , who slipped off their silver thrones , in ungainly haste. Next  the Vaisnava vairagis, hunkered down for their unholy rush, then the wandering mendicants and Siddhas who dedicate everything to Vishnu, the Sustainer.  Then came the innumerable other sects of ascetics dressed in saffron colored cloth and carrying their staffs of renunciation.  

The last came old people-- some just crawled , with a sense of purpose of course.

All the centuries gone by of India's spiritual evolution were simultaneously there together in the procession. 

As the sun rose you could see the confluence from a higher level of the banks, where the dark blue water of the Yamuna merges with the silver gray water of the Ganges, infused with the mythical Saraswati . Bathers, immersed up to the waist, scooped up water with folded palms and offered it to heaven in a timeless gesture.  

Some just stared at the rising sun , chest deep in water , chanting mantras in a spiritual trance .  

From almost every lip you can hear the chanting of OM - the Hindu king mantra .. OM or AUM mantra is 11000 years old—and was told by the seers that it was the original sound when the Cosmos was created.  OM resonates with the earths heartbeat or Schumann’s resonance of 7.83 hertz.  NASA kept 7.83 hertz generators on their Apollo space crafts.

Let me digress –

OM boosts the production of Nitric Oxide in the body.   Nitric oxide is a molecule that our body produces to help its 50 trillion cells communicate with each other by transmitting signals throughout the entire body. The Opiate drug Morphine , the addictive pain killer, works by an increase in Nitric Oxide release. Nitroglycerin and Amyl Nitrite tablets serve as vasodilators because they are converted to Nitric Oxide in the body, to ease angina pain ( heart pain ). Viagra which gives old lecherous rich men a hard on , works due to its action on Nitric oxide. 

Some enterprising boatmen rowed their boats full of pilgrims to a small sandbar in the middle of the sangam where probably the waters were clearer and deeper.

If you peep into the colourful pandals you will find serious spiritual discourses in progress,  sadhus doing painful penance or meditating , elaborate displays and dioramas illustrating the stories from the 6000 year old  epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata , kiosks selling hot ginger tea, exotic perfumes, musk, sandalwood oil, peacock feathers and even tiger's claws set in gold , bhajan or sing song sessions etc. . 

There will never be a dull moment.  

Words, film, print, and paper cannot do justice to this spectacular show of faith — it is one that has to be experienced personally using all 5 senses.  

Is it not a unique  experience to be part of the greatest tide of humanity at a single place by an enchanting river bank. Palmists, soothsayers and astrologers do roaring business. Well known sages give blessings to small children. Some were plain lost .

When Indira Gandhi came here she was blessed by the ageless siddha yogi Devraha Baba on her head with his foot, yet she was overjoyed.

Here, this  ocean of humanity presents a  rare opportunity to witness some of India’s most ancient and timeless sacred rituals, passed down over many generations . You get a chance to see holy men who come in the only on occasions of great significance such as the Mahakumbh.

You get to see a sadhu, who has stood on one leg for 15 years or kept his shriveled hand raised for 25 years  The naked sadhus are digambaras,  “wearing the sky”. Some of these sages have raised Kundalini and can do amazing psychokinesis acts --  a profound demonstrations of the power of the mind.  None of them want fame or money. This single act of cosmic consciousness is saving this planet-- but who is to undertand all this?

Raising the Kundalini  can be equated with the awakening of the silent areas of the brain Space and time lose their rigidity, and there is a mingling of the past, the present, and the future. The Indian sage has exploded into a space of consciousness in which inner awareness is spontaneous.  

Cosmic consciousness is an intellectual enlightenment or illumination, an indescribable state of moral and intellectual elevation, a feeling of amazing bliss. Divine wisdom enables your consciousness to pick up and become aware of super physical forces and phenomena. 

Yogis can live on ambrosial fluid. If its secretion is awakened and controlled in the body, then one needs nothing more for survival. The maintenance of the body's vitality becomes independent of food. You are able to enter into states of hibernation or suspended animation underneath the earth Kundalini transformation has the purpose to dissolve the last elements of your ego and enlighten you in the body.

When the brain is supplied with an extra amount of high grade energy (Kundalini) it becomes a ‘Bose-Einstein condensate’.  Thus following Kundalini awakening, the brain turns into a super-conductor with a focus like a laser beam.  How else can you explain our 7000 year old texts giving the speed of light and the diameters and distances of the planets?  

How do you explain the fact that the Rudraksha mala worn by these naked ash smeared sadhus since 11000 years , have 108 beads?

Is it by sheer coincidence that the Sun's diameter is 108 times that of the earth.  That the distance between the Earth and Sun is 108 times the diameter of the Sun .

That the distance of the Moon from the Earth is 108 times the diameter of the Moon.   That the distance of Moon to the Earth divided by the Moons diameter is 108.  

Is it by sheer chance that Mendeleyeev’s periodic table which he confessed that he developed by watching the 54 Sanskrit alphabets ( in Shiva--Shakti union form ) has 108 elements ( rest are too short lived ).

Say again?

An indirect method of awakening the Kundalini for amazing results adopted by Indian yogis is tapasya, which means the performance of severe penances and austerities.  In India there has always been this ancient tradition of the enlightened sage, the one who breaks free of ordinary human conditioning and attains a state called "awakening “.

By various means such as deep meditation or by pure devotion, or by the control and understanding of the mind these historical figures broke through into universal consciousness itself, and beyond that even, into the pure awareness of the absolute.  

Chanting the Vedic King mantra OM raises your vibration to a higher consciousness, and it clears the channel for intuition..which are messages from your unconscious mind making contact with your consciousness. 

Cosmic consciousness is the concept that the universe is a living superorganism with which animals, including humans, interconnect, and form a collective consciousness which spans the cosmos.  Fields of conscousness are called M fields –morphogenetic.  Just like electromagnetic and gravitational fields.  

Sacred mantras chanted in Sanskrit,  the divine and digital language from the 12 strand DNA of seers, cleanse the environment and can reduce crime in a city, if chanted by sufficient numbers, the right way, and right number of times.  Some call this transcendental.  It is about quantum consciousness.

Tapasya   is   a   means   of   purification.  Through this process the mind, the emotions and the whole personality are cleansed of all the dirt, complexes and patterns of behavior that cause pain and suffering.  Bad habits, vices are uprooted and destroyed at its psychic root,  not only at the conscious level.  Strength of will is the fruit of tapasya.  

Once you achieve a balanced mind in the face of mental and emotional conflicts and you can endure anger, worry, love and passion, disappointment, jealousy, hatred, memories of the past, sufferings and sorrows-- you are ready for the awakening.  Such sadhus live in seclusion because when there are interactions with people, so many thought currents move in the mind.  

Mixing with people, talking and gossiping create crosscurrents of love, hatred, infatuation, jealousy, likes and dislikes, restlessness, worry , desires and passions. 

When you do NOT have any interaction with people, you will be spared a lot of mental turmoil.  You will  have NIL psychological cobwebs. 

He is also ready for the vairagya or detachment that will come to him as a result of the awakening of kundalini.  As the liberated energy (Kundalini) courses through the system, it actually sweeps away samskaras – karmic traces from the past that are still imprinted in the body and mind – like floodwaters clearing clogged debris from a river bed.

"As one opens the door with a key, so the yogi should open the gate to liberation with the kundalini. The great goddess sleeps, closing with her mouth,, the opening through which one can ascend to the brahrnarandhra... to that place where there is neither pain nor suffering. The kundalini sleeps above the kanda... she gives liberation to the yogi and bondage to the fool. He who knows kundalini, knows yoga. The kundalini, it is said, is coiled like a serpent- He who can induce her to move is liberated."  Hatha Yoga Pradipika v. 105-111 –5000 BC

The sounds of the conch shell or the shanka’s being blown are resonant frequencies of OM 7.83 hertz as the winding passage inside the shell , shaped by the morphogenetic consciousness field (brahmAn ),  follows the universal golden mean spiral.  

The incongruent combination of technology and tradition can’t be ignored as GPS tracking facilities and huge LED screens have been installed at several locations at the mela.

Here is the greatest exercise in self discovery.  Here lies the end of the search for unwalled horizons,  for an escape from a life of uninspired existence-- for a scrupulous equation between the ends and the means.

You will never see a human being more comfortable in his own skin than at the Kumbh Mela —just wearing the sky.

There is a feeling of shared identity here. 

For Kumbh Mela is the greatest leveler on this planet.