Rishikesh. Ganga Aarti awareness workshop organized under the joint aegis of Namami Gange, Arth Gange, Jal Shakti Ministry and Parmarth Niketan started today in Parmarth Niketan. The 13th Ganga Aarti Awareness Workshop was inaugurated by lighting the lamp in the sacred presence of Parmarth Peethadhishwar Swami Chidanand Saraswati Ji and Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati Ji in an environment filled with the divine sound of Veda Mantras and spiritual energy.
On this dignified occasion, priests from five states of India, officials of Namami Gange and many representatives dedicated to Ganga conservation were present. The objective of the workshop is to make Ganga Aarti not just a ritual of faith but to make it a powerful medium of public awareness, so that with every Aarti the message of cleanliness, environmental protection and water conservation reaches the people.
This workshop is an important initiative towards empowering priests as agents of positive change in the society. Swami Chidanand Saraswati ji said that in Indian culture, rivers are not just water streams, but life streams. Mother Ganga is the cornerstone of our faith, culture, civilization and spiritual consciousness. We perform the aarti of Mother Ganga every day and salute her by calling her mother, but if we throw plastic, garbage, worship material and other waste in the same Ganga, then this is not our reverence and spirituality.
The special objective of this workshop is to ignite the bright flame of awareness through priests and acharyas from across the country. In India, millions of devotees offer prayers every day under the guidance of priests at temples and ghats. If every priest gives only a two-minute message through Aarti and takes a pledge to clean and purify Ganga, a remarkable change can occur.
Swamiji said that filth and worship cannot go together. How can purity survive where there is filth? How will puja survive where there is pollution? Worship and pollution cannot go together, hence the lamp of service has to be lit within ourselves. Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati ji said that Mother Ganga is not the river but the soul of India. Their purity is our national responsibility. When we protect Mother Ganga, that means we protect our future, our culture and our existence. Come, through this workshop, let us all take a pledge that there should be no garbage in Mother Ganga, but only devotion. Every priest became the messenger of public awareness, every devotee became the guardian of Mother Ganga.
The three-day Ganga Aarti awareness workshop was attended by people from various ghats of five states of India, Harahi Pokhar Ghat, Hazarinath Mandir Ghat, Kshama Mandir Ghat, Konhara Ghat, Rasalpur Ghat, Sultanpur Ghat, Shivkar Ghat, Dakshin Ghat, Bihu River, Pipra Ghat, Kamla River, Jeevach Ghat, Manihari, Kadagola Ghat, Daroli Ghat, Simaria Ghat and Devkund Mandir Ghat. The priests participated.
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