tanks of pleasure
A Puri during the Ratha Yatra Festival or Festival of Chariots in June or July on schedule Moon, the ancient local god Jagannat, accompanied by his sister and his brother came out with great ceremony in their temple, Sri Jagannat prohibits non-Hindu. It covers the three gigantic chariots to their summer residence.
On the coast of Orissa, fishing villages devoid of any comfort
Puri is a pleasant town almost clean of Orissa, on the coast of north-eastern India, a region still unknown. However, the miles of golden beaches are expected to attract tourists, provided of course the beaches are cleaned. For now, the poor fishermen who settled in small villages in unsanitary huts, made of palm leaves intertwined, have only one water pump in the village. No electricity or sewer. And, inevitably, some three hundred fishermen in each village to have the beach to dump garbage ever collected or relieve them. This means that we simply can not swim in these surroundings. Yet, the kids are surfing with a shoestring, or Styrofoam plates, on giant rollers and girls dressed like princesses spring from their poor hovels. In addition, fish is never eaten fresh, for lack of refrigeration facilities, but drying on the sand, which adds to the stench room.
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| Fishers almost miserable Puri ... |
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| ... Go in the evening at the Festival of Chariots |
If we ignore these problems olfactory, vision is heavenly: blue sea down the waves, boats of the same hue, which huts, by far, appear from a Club Med village. What does all forget is the charming hospitality of the people, inviting to come home to drink a chai , Indian tea and sweet, flavored taste a chapati, wheat pancakes, or a samosa , little pastries filled meat or vegetables. All are in their best clothes to get to downtown Puri, where takes place tonight on the last day of the Ratha Yatra festival, the most important.
The three gods, standing in their chariots adorned with gold and flowers, pulled by hundreds of pilgrims returned to their residence Gundicha Mandir, three kilometers away, to return to their temple of Sri Jagannath. Just heard the tanks rolling over the pebbles or better, to touch, to be sure to stop the Wheel of Life and the cycle of reincarnation. And is accessed directly nirvana, heavenly peace. This means that the issue is important for all Hindu!
Puri, a town with houses painted delicious
Puri, sleepy little town beside the sea, never saw that the time for festivals. There are two per year: Chandan Yatra in April-May, a celebration Vaishnavism in which the image of Vishnu is transported by boat on the lake sacred Narendra, to refresh themselves in its waters scented with sandalwood, and that tanks, which will culminate tonight when the gods return to their temples. Meanwhile, the crowd gathers in front of Sri Jagannath, which I unfortunately not well that day as terraces that border. Therefore impossible to take a look at its countless shrines and its 752 ovens never extinguished since its inauguration in the twelfth century and able to cook 200,000 meals a day. The biggest world food, they say.
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| The three ancient gods that are celebrated in Puri |
It is almost 40 ° in the village, warmth when wet dripping all fronts. Not a Westerner to see if these three heavy tanks decorated garlands of golden flowers or they do not see inside. But each carries his god. Quantity of the Brahmans in orange wrappers, rather dazed by the heat, even with a sleepy relaxed throughout India. This does not undermine the enthusiasm of the crowd. Everyone strives to reach at least one of three tanks in a crowd a good child. Salvation in the other world is at stake.
Some pilgrims, wiser or already filled by the three gods, chattering away from the crowd snapped up cold drinks but not alcohol or meat during a religious festival, looking for a dark corner on the threshold of lovely painted houses to sleep before the evening's festivities .
Then the crowd disperses slowly toward the shore in front of the Mayfair hotel where the beach is clean and well maintained . Entire families are among the waves, laughing at getting knocked down by the rollers. Women enter the sea fully dressed, regardless of their glittering saris embroidered with gold. Overall, the Indians swim badly and rescuers from the hotel, armed with large buoys, remain vigilant.
When night falls on Puri, a forest of lights and garlands rival the stars. The crowd became very dense, more than one million pilgrims were told. Police were mobilized, streets blocked. The only approach to the temple is not the main avenue, after a grueling march, shoulder to elbow, two kilometers. The Brahmans screaming prayers incomprehensible that the pilgrims resumed in heart, right arm raised. I try to imitate them, in m'empêtrant just in words, but my goodwill earned me many friends and girlfriends. Windows and balconies gush of fountains refreshing. These thousands of pilgrims must go around all three tanks, touching if possible all three. Suffice to say that it will take hours before Jagannath and his family return to their household gods ...
Everyone buys their effigies, quite ugly indeed ...
Konarak, a cart of stone to teach love
; " Here, the language of the stones is more powerful than men," said the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore citing this chariot of stone built in the thirteenth century by the Narasimhadeva to honor King Surya, the sun god. The temple contained very exact shape of the tanks of Puri - there are also in the surrounding villages, but the most popular with pilgrims remain those of Puri. The base of the temple form a real chariot with 24 wheels of stone three feet in diameter. While the temple is intricately carved, especially the base, we can see up close.
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| carts today ... |
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| ... Uncannily resemble the stone chariot built in the XIII th century, listed to the Unesco World Heritage |
is a surprising sight to watch these women and girls in India, came here on pilgrimage, prudes by family tradition, watching with amazement fellatio, cunnilingus, some three, four, five or more animals copulating as blithely as men . The lower guide venerable sage or boy, heats Moreover quickly commenting sculptures carved with such beauty that the temple is now a UNESCO World Heritage.
It has long asked why the king had ordered to sculptors such an erotic frenzy. Then we thought, of course, another illustration of the Kama Sutra.
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| is an amazing show that women or girls contemplating erotic scenes |
The Kama- Sutra science of love and life science
Towards the fourth century, on Ghats or steps of the Ganges in Varanasi, the city or we are going to die (Benares), the wise Vatsayayana wrote the Kama Sutra or the science of love. The text, written in Sanskrit, the sacred language of India, has some two thousand two hundred and fifty slokas or verses. As the author says, it was not only to enumerate and explain the 64 famous sexual positions:
"Someone who knows the true foundations of this science, to preserve her virtue (dharma), wealth (artha) and its sensual pleasures (kama), and respects the customs of his people, is assured of achieving control of his senses. In short, an intelligent and informed, concerned the proper dharma, artha and kama, without becoming a slave to his passions, will obtain success in everything she could undertake. "
depth knowledge of science love certainly, and visit the Temple of the Sun contributes largely, but avoid being subject to his senses.
Across the Sun Temple, the awakening the kundalini
It is also possible that the builder king, knowing full well the work of Vatsayayana, also had other knowledge. Among the profusion of sculptures from his sanctuary, each embrace, each posture sexual love every game is followed by a representation of a snake. Embraced the couple or the god presiding over the act, he deployed to the head of some partners to form a true dome snakes. Although the Indian pantheon of gods and even the Buddha is often represented. This snake is none other than kundalini, a representation of tantric awakening of desire up to a cosmic dimension. The Sun Temple is celebrating especially Tantrism.
Tantra is the science of tantra, the Sanskrit word meaning frame, net and by extension anything that expands the understanding, particularly of a cosmic sexuality. Indeed, for Hindus, the whole universe is generated by the sexual play of the goddess Shakti, Shiva penetrated by the invisible. The world is born of desire, it is not appropriate for tantrikas Hindus, followers of Tantrism, to curb their own, but to redirect their energy. Thus, in Tantric practices, the novice must be "loaded" the powers of the deity he invokes sexual union with a partner already initiated the opposite sex. Then, of course, teaching is difficult ... It is said that a particularly tantrika should be gifted in one night, uniting with 108 women ...
By awakening sexual practice by the well-directed snake, the kundalini nestled at the base of the spine, it makes it back to the top of the head, and then beyond, to chakra in chakra (wheel always points of the body concentrating energies ). The tantrika recreates him as the union of Shakti and Shiva, while retaining his semen for produce bindu or seed energy. Ineffable pleasure ...
The problem is that the science of Tantric pleasure can not be learned with a teacher himself already initiated. Remains only to find ...
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| One of the famous 24 wheels of Konarak |
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| Love for asceticism as an awakening of Kundalini, the serpent sacred |
Technical
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. Direct flights from Paris-Kolkatta , Air France, rates of interest if it is done in advance, see airfrance.fr, Air India, airindia.com, Delta Air Lines in partnership with Air France, see delata.com or Gulf Air, see gulfair.fr.
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