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Why Ganges river water or "Ganga Jal" is believed and considered pure and holy? According to some, Ganga water or Ganga Jal don't get inflicted to fungi or other pathogens.
There are numbers of claims that Ganges water doesn't cause any illness, it does have healing power, some also gives examples of miraculous nature of Ganges water.
What's the truth behind these claims of never inflicting water of Ganges?
lets's get the views of different scholars from different backgrounds over this topic.
There are numbers of claims that Ganges water doesn't cause any illness, it does have healing power, some also gives examples of miraculous nature of Ganges water.
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| River Ganga |
What's the truth behind these claims of never inflicting water of Ganges?
lets's get the views of different scholars from different backgrounds over this topic.
Some people say, it's because of the river bed of the Ganges, which is radioactive in nature. According to them there lie radioactive substances in the river bed of the Ganges which actually don't allow causative viruses, fungi or bad bacteria to grow or multiply and hence water remains free of pathogens. They say the radioactive substance lies very much deep, due to which the harmful radioactive substances get weaken so much that, they have an almost negligible effect on humans.
Some people claim that the water of river Ganga contains Bacteriophages a virus which attaches itself with other viruses and other causative pathogens through their cell membrane and after attaching itself, it burst out and thus killing the pathogens.
Thus these bacteriophages are the reasons for Ganges water to remain pure and hygienic even after the water kept for long.
Some others say the river bed of Ganges contains calcium phosphate which helps in purification of Ganges water. The source of these calcium phosphates is the dispersing of mortals, which has been practised on this since times immemorial.
There are many similar logics and thesis given on the sanctity of river Ganges water. But there are also people who oppose this thesis and say they are nothing but an orthodox practice of treating Ganges water to be sacred and pure. They say these are mere subjective experiences without any objective reality.
Among such opponents are Dr Abraham T. kovoor, According to Dr Abraham T.Kovoor( rationalist and psychiatrist, from Kerala, South India), no water is sacred and can be considered healing in nature miraculously, he argued that all the waters are same and if some gets healed are because of the psychosomatic nature of human beings and not due to the sacred waters, be it Ganga water, or water from Mecca or 'sacred' water from Lourdes According to him, he has conducted several experiments on the spiritual phenomenons and has done an intensive research for 50 years or so on this field. But he didn't find anything miraculous in nature, but he relates everything to psychosomatic nature of human being. This psychosomatic nature only can make one ill and can even cure illness when used.
Some people claim that the water of river Ganga contains Bacteriophages a virus which attaches itself with other viruses and other causative pathogens through their cell membrane and after attaching itself, it burst out and thus killing the pathogens.
Thus these bacteriophages are the reasons for Ganges water to remain pure and hygienic even after the water kept for long.
Some others say the river bed of Ganges contains calcium phosphate which helps in purification of Ganges water. The source of these calcium phosphates is the dispersing of mortals, which has been practised on this since times immemorial.
There are many similar logics and thesis given on the sanctity of river Ganges water. But there are also people who oppose this thesis and say they are nothing but an orthodox practice of treating Ganges water to be sacred and pure. They say these are mere subjective experiences without any objective reality.
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| Aarti at the Ghat of river Ganga |
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| River Ganga at Night |
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| Night View of Ganga |
Among such opponents are Dr Abraham T. kovoor, According to Dr Abraham T.Kovoor( rationalist and psychiatrist, from Kerala, South India), no water is sacred and can be considered healing in nature miraculously, he argued that all the waters are same and if some gets healed are because of the psychosomatic nature of human beings and not due to the sacred waters, be it Ganga water, or water from Mecca or 'sacred' water from Lourdes According to him, he has conducted several experiments on the spiritual phenomenons and has done an intensive research for 50 years or so on this field. But he didn't find anything miraculous in nature, but he relates everything to psychosomatic nature of human being. This psychosomatic nature only can make one ill and can even cure illness when used.
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