This time, in this Mahakumbh 2025, I was able to go to Prayagraj, Shri Kshetra Triveni Sangam on Paush Purnima and Makar Sankranti in the Mahapunya kaal. (Read about my second Snan on the Mauni Amavasya at Sangam Ghat link here)
Prayagraj administration has clearly made efforts. The ghats have been maintained, clean and police are around everywhere. The only thing is that with traffic diversions it takes a bit longer to reach anywhere, ghat or airport. But this is acceptable and the administration has managed to keep everything organised. The Ghats where the Akhadas were to do their formal Peshwai and Shahi Snan were as expected impossibly crowded.
On both the days we hired boats from the Arail ghat to the Triveni Sangam point. It took about 1hr to 1.5hrs for the entire boat journey – to the sangam point, snan and back to the ghat. And the boatmen were all very helpful. The normal charge was Rs 1500/- for the round trip but we felt so happy with the entire experience that we gave them an amount which we thought they very much deserved.
And there was always the option of doing the Snan at the riverbank itself. Especially larger families with small children were choosing this quicker and safer option. In any case, the energy is the same, whether you take a boat and go in, or do the snan at the riverbank. The entire area is the power of the Triveni Sangam.
Surprisingly at the Sangam point, which is in the middle of the river, the depth is only 2-3 feet, waist height! The Yamuna river is upto 100+ feet at some points, the Ganga river is upto 50+ feet at some points. And at the Sangam point has such shallow waters. We did the Snan here on both days. Gave Arghya to Bhagwan Surya, and to the other deities – Bhagwan Ganapati, the Vedpurush, Mata Shri Jagadambika, the three Devi-s Ganga Yamuna Saraswati, to my Shri Gurudev. Recited the Shri Sukta and some more mantras. The other people were offering mantra infused flowers, coconuts, Akshata, kumkum, turmeric, saffron etc to the three Devi-s Ganga Yamuna Saraswati – now merged into One here.
If you are a follower of Sanatan Dharma and are capable of travelling, do go to Prayagraj and have an auspicious bath/Snan at the Triveni Sangam during this Mahakumbh 2025. There were also several foreign nationals doing the Snan. It is appreciable that these followers of Sanatan Dharma have travelled so far for this Snan. This energy recharge will help you for your several future lives, not just this one life.
Shahi Snan days, when the Akhadas take their ritualistic Snan will be crowded as expected, but on the other days, things will be manageable. So choose a date suitable for you. And there will be crowds on the more hyped up Ghats. So choose the Ghats where there is lesser hype. The Mahakumbh area is very very huge, kilometres long Ghats along the rivers, Ganga and Yamuna. And the Triveni sangam point in the river is also very large. And things are well managed. So do go. If the entire family cannot manage to go, then at least one person from each and every Hindu family must go to this extraordinary Utsav of Sanatan Dharma. This will help power you, your family and ultimately also your nation.
(Pic of people doing Snan in the Triveni Sangam in the middle of the rivers.)
The icy cold water of the rivers and then absorbing the Mahakumbh energy is an incredible energy reset. The first time you stand in the water is an icy shock at the physical level, even more so with the 3 dips. And then there is a gradual warming up as the energy resets within. So then you can stand and do your pujas/ mantra/ Arghya etc while standing in the water.
It is only on these Teertha yatras that you see the power of Sanatan Dharma. This is the real power of Shraddha and Vishwas which can channelise the Eternal Consciousness within you. Go to Triveni and see how the common Indian people are the proud followers of Sanatan Dharma. These are our people. We are the collective power of Dharma. The Mahakumbh is the immense power of the Collective Human Mind guided by the Atmajnyani Gurus who are present there. And in the presence of the Eternal Devi of the Triveni Sangam.
These are the ‘simple’ ‘common’ people of the nation. They do not know anything about Ida, Pingala or Sushumna or the Kundalini or the Ajnya chakra. In fact if you tell them that the sleeping Kundalini is in the shape of the snake, they might say, if she is a snake then it is better to let her sleep! But they come, they stand in the icy water and recharge their Ajnya chakras. Just by following what their parents and grandparents did, they are on the fast track to pure power.
I saw one extended family – from the great grandmother to the tiny babies, about 25-30 people together. The great grandmother would have been 100+yrs old, only bones, so thin and small. And one of her grandsons wrapped her in a shawl and carefully picked her up in her arms, walking for more than 1km holding her, so much love, respect and dedication! Another family with tiny babies to grandparents, settling down in blankets on the sands for the night at 10deg C, all ready to do the snan at early morning at the Brahma muhurt. A family with a wheelchair bound differently abled person, they loaded him with his wheelchair on the boat and took him to do the snan at the Triveni point in the river. A family with a blind son, the parents took him carefully into the Triveni point and he took snan. This is pure inspiration. This is Dharma. Doing what is necessary with the minimum fuss.
If you hear someone say that he/she is willing to do ‘anything’ for Dharma, ask them if they have gone to Mahakumbh? Took their spouse, their children, their parents and grandparents? Or were scared of the crowds, the cold and the ‘inconvenience’ and opted out? Dharma does not need you to do extraordinary things, Dharma is when you just do these regular things systematically as a routine.
And why do we, Crores of us, take so much effort to reach this place? Aged, elderly, infants, differently abled, young and old, why do we all go there to this one point of Time/Space to jump into icy cold water? Who tells us? Why do we make this effort?
The reason that the Devi Herself calls us, we are Her children. She is our Mother. It is Her Voice that we listen to in our hearts, in our minds, in our blood and so we go to Her. In all ways and always only to Her.
So do listen to Her, do go to Her at Triveni. Do Her pujas, take Her blessings.
Dr. Tejaswini Arvind Patil
(Temples in Bharat that I have been to – Part 1 and Part 2 )
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