Description:
Ganga Aarti at Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi is a spectacle to watch. Every evening, devotees pray to Ganga with Ganga Aarti and thank her for nurturing them and for cleansing them with her purifying waters. Hundreds of devotees, pilgrims and tourists gather to watch the spectacle of Ganga Aarti at the famous Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi. Young pandits who perform the Aarti wear colour coordinated silk dhotis, orange kurtas, and stoles across their shoulders. They start aarti in a well organized manner, standing on elevated planks, start a rhythmic chant of mantras with rhythmic movement of the multi tiered lamp.
Ritual of the Gange aarti is performed by the students of the Vedas and Upanishads which is lead by the head priest of the Gangotri Seva Samiti. The whole event takes around 45 minutes. By the end of the Ganga aarti ceremony, thousands of small oil lamps float on the river that would look like numerous stars on the water.
