Religious Importance of Kumbh Mela

Kumbh Mela festival is religiously most important for the Hindus. At every Kumbh occasion, millions of Hindus take part in the celebrations. Irrespective of all worldly barriers of caste, creed, region, the Kumbh Mela  has wielded a mesmeric influence over the minds and the imagination of the ordinary Indian.

The festival is visited by the most amazing saints from all across India. Some of the famous saints groups are:

• The Naga Sadhus are one such, who never wear any cloth and are smeared in ash. They have long matted hairs and are not at all affected by the extremes of heat and cold.
• Urdhwavahurs, who believe in putting the body through severe austerities.
• Parivajakas, who have taken a vow of silence and go about tinkling little bells to get people out of their way.
• Shirshasins stand all 24 hours and meditate for hours standing on their heads.

Kalpvasis are who spend entire month of Kumbh on the banks of Ganga, meditating, performing rituals and bathing thrice a day.
Taking bath during Kumbh Mela in the Holy River is believed that it cures the bather of all sins and evils and grants the bather, salvation (Moksha). It is also believed that at the time of Kumbh Yog, the water of Ganga is charged with positive healing effects and that water at the time of Kumbh is charged positively by enhanced electromagnetic radiations of the Sun, Moon and the Jupiter, the flux of which also varies in accordance to positions and the phases of the moon, and also by the + and - signs of the sun spots.