Tag: Aarti
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Performing Aarti in Haridwar
In Haridwar, a family together performs Aarti to Mother Ganga by moving the leaf boat of flowers and fire in circles and then placing it in the water. (Click on title below left to open a brief video in a separate window.) Performing Aarti
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Immersion in Ritual
We’ve been travelling now without internet access. This video is from a couple of days ago in Haridwar. [qt:http://discoveryofindia.scotblogs.wooster.edu/files/2008/05/haridwar-aarti-5_18.mov 320 240] Our one evening in Haridwar was the most dramatic, bustling, exciting, claustrophobic, sharing, participatory of our experiences to date. We walked from our hotel through narrow, vendor lined streets to the temple site on…
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Aarti in the Rain
This post goes with John Rudisill’s “Immersion in Ritual” above. Essentially, it is a narration to accompany the 5-minute video below (“Haridwar-Aarti”), taken in Haridwar on the late afternoon and evening of 19 May. One guide took us from our hotel in Haridwar to the ghat (landing) where we had reserved places. When we arrived…