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Varanasi, the holy city, is touched by spirituality and it is said that dying in the city is a sure-shot way to attain moksha (getting rid of the cycle of birth and death). Death is celebrated in a sense it is seen as libration and salvation from the cycle of birth and death. It is believed that cremation in Varanasi is so pious that it ensures salvation. Everyday scenes alongside the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India, prove death can sometimes be nothing to bat an eyelid at. Here, death isn\'t something to be hidden. Rather, it\'s a part of the fabric of everyday life. A photograph that was captured during the Dawn shows the cycle of life, shows the lifestyle of the people living in the ghats of the holy Ganges. People live here by the dead. This site is a unique place of death rituals.
This photograph was captured at 5:45 AM. I was walking in the ghats of Manikarnika in Varanasi, a ghat where dead bodies are cremated. I noticed a man who was sleeping on an Indian wooden rope bed, which was placed on a platform just above the river, which we can see on the right side of the photograph, and coincidentally just on the left side, I found a coffin of a person who is laid to rest. I found that scene very dramatic, For a place with a nickname as morbid as The City of Death, I was surprised by how much colour I can see, I was moved by that atmosphere, the coffin, right beside the sleeping man covered by the blanket. I was amazed by the secrets that still this ancient city holds. I saw the cycle of life. Man is a mortal being, and being such everyone who lives, will die; this is the inescapable law that gives meaning to life. Without death, time would have no value, life would become meaningless.
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