{"id":651311,"date":"2010-02-02T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/travelogues\/74745-varanasi-business-spiritual-trip.html"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:06:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:06:03","slug":"varanasi-business-spiritual-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/651311","title":{"rendered":"Varanasi &#8211; Business + Spiritual trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Varanasi<\/b> &#8211; the city of temples, hermits, sooth sayers, salvation seekers and a place of learning since centuries. Finds a mention in the Puraans, Upanishads and other mythological epics.<\/p>\n<p>A city of Kaal Bhairav, Maa Annapoorna, Baba Vishwanath &amp; Sankat Mochan.<\/p>\n<p>A city of the Holy Ganges where a dip in its water is supposed to wash all your sins and grant salvation.<\/p>\n<p>A city of Harischandra Ghat, where the great Raja Harischandra himself burnt the dead &amp; lit pyres.<\/p>\n<p>A city of Manikarnika Ghat where a pyre is always burning. The fire has never been extinguished for thousands of years. It is said that the moment the fire is extinguished, Pralay will happen.<\/p>\n<p>A city where my ancestors migrated from Karnataka to attain higher knowledge and settled on the banks of Ganga; a city where my childhood was spent running in and out, bare footed, of myriad gullies and lanes, dodging bovines and their droppings.<\/p>\n<p>A city that gets its name from the two tributaries of Ganga &#8211; Varuna &amp; Assi.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varanasi &#8211; the city of temples, hermits, sooth sayers, salvation seekers and a place of learning since centuries. Finds a mention in the Puraans, Upanishads and other mythological epics. A city of Kaal Bhairav, Maa Annapoorna, Baba Vishwanath &amp; Sankat Mochan. A city of the Holy Ganges where a dip in its water is supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Jr1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}