{"id":168,"date":"2022-04-25T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T09:21:21","slug":"manikarnika-ghat-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/manikarnika-ghat-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Manikarnika Ghat Varanasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Manikarnika Ghat<\/a><\/strong> is one of Varanasi&#8217;s oldest ghats, and according to Hinduism&#8217;s holy scriptures, it has the highest status among all ghats. It is thought that if a person is cremated here, he will achieve moksha right away (salvation). The Scindia Ghat and the Dashashwamedh Ghat encircle it on both sides. The Manikarnika Ghat, like all the other ghats in Varanasi, is surrounded by a fascinating mythical story that also explains how it got its name. Lord Shiva is said to have brought Goddess Adi Shakti, or Goddess Sati, to the Himalayas when she jumped into the flames and immolated herself. He was engulfed in interminable grief there. Lord Vishnu was moved by his misery and unleashed his Divine Chakra (one of his weapons), which slashed Goddess Adi Shakti&#8217;s body into 51 pieces. Each of the places on Earth where her pieces landed was designated as a Shakti Peeth. Because her earrings dropped at this ghat, it was designated as a Shakti Peeth and given the name Manikarnika, as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/\">Manikarna<\/a> <\/strong>means ear rings in Sanskrit.<\/p>\n<p>The ghat welcomes you with a variety of sights, sounds, and smells. On one corner, you might see a priest preaching to a large crowd, while on the other, you would see people performing cremation rites. The air is filled with smoke as hundreds of victims are thrown into the flames, possibly reminding onlookers of death&#8217;s certainty and how fleeting everything is. Although photography is permitted at the<strong> Manikarnika Ghat<\/strong>, one of Varanasi&#8217;s tourist attractions, caution should be taken to ensure that the entire process is not disrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manikarnika Ghat is one of Varanasi&#8217;s oldest ghats, and according to Hinduism&#8217;s holy scriptures, it has the highest status among all ghats. It is thought that if a person is cremated here, he will achieve moksha right away (salvation). The Scindia Ghat and the Dashashwamedh Ghat encircle it on both sides. The Manikarnika Ghat, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahendraindiatravel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}