The CITY OF LORD SHIVA:VARANASi

The oldest city of the world the Varanasi city has its own beauty. The name “Varanasi” originates from the varuna and the assi river
The people, The river , the beautiful culture and the walls of this city tells different stories. The beauty of the city lies in the history of it. if you explore this city you found out from dusk to dawn it have several stories to tell so this article is all about Varanasi.
People call it the city of lord Shiva it is a belief of people that the city is standing on the trishool of the lord Shiva. There are lots of temples and ghats the first temple which I explore was the Kashi Vishwanath temple it is a temple of lord Shiva people go there and worship lord shiva in the form of linga.Priests pouring milk on the shivling it’s said that pouring milk and water removes the inferior energy and the shivling is beautifully decorated by different flowers people are desperate to worship lord shiva they travelled a lot to came here and they lost themselves in the adoration of lord Shiva believing that Shiva pardon the sins of the people. The second place where I went was Dashasamedh ghat the most famous ghat in Varanasi there are 84 ghats in which Dashaswamedh ghat , Manikarnika ghat ,Harishchandra ghat , Assi ghat , Kabir ghat ,Tulsi das ghat every ghat is famous for the memories of famous personalites for their work like tulsidas who written the RAMCHRITAMANAS which focuses on humanity. Dashaswamedh ghat is the most alert ghat where many ceremonies are taking place everyday the bestest thing I ever saw was ganga aarti how beautifully the priests do aarti the music the waves of the ghat and the alluring herons made that place speechless.We saw a lot of tourist taking bath in the river and praying..doing different kinds of exercises. After that the boatmen’s taking the tourist around the river and telling them all about the city …it’s history it’s culture etc .the saints are doing their whole makeup by putting tilak on their foreheads and wearing orange clothes performing various activities like lighting diyas and floating it into the river and blowing the conch and praying early in the morning. It’s a belief of people that the river have many properties who came here and take bath their body gets clean not by externally but internally it have many properties as I said people do cultivation and they consider it best for their crops. Many people sell ballons toys and many food stuffs like chaat and golgappas their …and this city is also famous for food stuffs the people of Varanasi are fond of food there are several food stuffs made for different occasions and also for different time like in breakfast they started their day by kachori and sabji and also a syrup filled ring [jalebis] which is most famous in varansi you saw a lot of crowd at such place and in the lunch time they mostly eat proper food after that they take some lassi and rabari and malai for desert and in last they take pans for freshness of mouth there are variety of pans which is must try to taste which is usually eaten for freshness after having food so people of Varanasi are fascinated by food .The story of Varanasi is not end here
People living in gallies and selling their products children’s are playing games women’s waiting for vegetable sellers all these activities are going on in the gallies of Varanasi. People often come here to buy ‘Banarasi silk sarees’ which is most famous here. And also Varanasi is famous for different dance forms and classical music many famous personalites like Ravi Shankar and ustad bismillah khan live there they give new insight for such activities. Then I move to saw the most famous university that is BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY it was found by the most famous freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya it’s the dream of every student to go for this university and everyone is aware about this university so this is my whole experience after exploring some parts of Varanasi there are thousands of things to explore one must go there and experience different things. I like to mention some lines of the poetry by Kedarnath Singh that is………..
किसी अलक्षित सूर्य को
देता हुआ अर्घ्य
शताब्दियों से इसी तरह
गंगा के जल में
अपनी एक टांग पर खड़ा है यह शहर
अपनी दूसरी टांग से
बिलकुल बेखबर!