India still kept and practiced most of their traditions and rituals for thousands of years. It is still alive until today because it has a strong significance about it. A lot to learn from their rich culture and heritage.
Hi Chris, Culture shocks a pretty normal for everyone outside their society, and Indian culture probably with India probably one of the hardest to digest, and I would like to thank you for experiencing our culture with an open mind. I have a-lot of respect for you having given the land, the people an opportunity . I hope you inspire more people to view Hinduism and India with such perspective. Hari Om Tat Sat
I've seen some videos lately on here which have been hugely negative, but that is not the truth. The truth is far more nuanced and there is both good and bad. Thanks to the excellent guides I had in Varanasi I was able to learn about the city and culture in a good way.
Thank you for shedding light on this, Varanasi has changed quite a bit, I remember going to the Ganges recently and am so happy things are finally improving in India! I hope the gov improves their social conditions especially for the children, especially the gypsy kids. Btw, aghori is Not for everyone, and should not be used as an excuse to imbibe more than you would.
At 40 mins start in the video I am sorry to say but much of the true ancient knowledge by your guides were not represented properly with its essence and it’s not their fault it’s just so complex and deep with such ancient knowledge and traditions it’s hard to explain in modern language and that too in English where words may fell short. Hope you will come back to India and dive much more deeper
India has changed so much since my first visit in the early 90's, it's just insane how much it has changed, even today, you can still meet the "old India" in rural areas!
Thank you for this video. Im in Varanasi for two weeks already, full of questions , and your video open my eyes for much more understanding about this special place.
Hi Chris, Finally I found, Best RUclips video regarding Varanasi, by a foreigner. Quite unfortunate that you couldn't enter Kashi Vishwanath Temple. Jai Kalbhairav....🐕 Jai Kashi Vishwanath... 🔱
Brilliant work Chris, being a non-Indian you have covered different aspects of Varanasi so well. If its OK, can you please provide contact number of the guide, he is so good. I am going to Varanasi in a few days , would love to see the city with him.
Thank you for watching. I hope from this video more can see the real Varanasi rather than the sensationalist stuff you see on here, particularly about Aghori people
Compared to other travellers I found your videos genuine cause of your intentions. You want to learn, experience and live the moment. The true essence of travel.
Nice work Chris, as a fellow Brit Ive been lucky to spend over 4 years travelling around India and probably 3 or 4 months in Varanasi. I still cant resist watching videos of the place but I usually switch off after a minute or two. Yours I watched to the end and thoroughly enjoyed. Well Done
@@ChrisKermis Hello Chris, well as Im sure youre aware, its very possible these days to travel around the world and u less youre very careful you will only interact with people in the tourist industry. Or people trying to sell you something, get a tip and so on. As a consequence theyre not being authentic, theyre shining you on as it were. My practice has always been to spend a long time in every place I go, even if I dont like it too much! Set up a routine, buy fruit from the same person, drink chai at the same time and place, after a few days, you then become of interest to 'real' people. Youre not doing the usual tourist things like taking pics of tourist spots. That 'you' are there to learn from the people and environment means people then come to meet you, enquire about you and then reveal so very much more than would be discovered with a cursory glance. Specific to India, anywhere really, pilgrimage and 'holy' places tend to be the cultural hotbeds where the philosophy of the people is most easily revealed. And like you, my motivation has always been to see why people do the things they do, their motivations and so on. What you do so wel is being interested in the people, and that will and has taken you a long way already!
I really felt you were quite patient in learning and letting others complete first. It was a long video but I enjoyed every second of it. At first my thought was this must be like any other foreign youtuber video where they try not to act condescendingly but somehow give themselves away while experiencing these things. But quite the opposite it was. Quite happy that I was proved wrong.
Thank you so much for your video. I’m now planning to go there based on your experience. Always knew about Kashi of course but you have made it more doable. Liked the sunrise to sunset edit.
Everything's possible in India :) you love or hate it. I am going back in December, it's my third time but different area than Varanasi been there on my first trip and it was def a mind changer, one day I will go back. Namasté 🙏
@@vanshmalhotra121 I am in India now for almost 4 weeks, Gokarna at the beach now for the next 2 days, peaceful and quiet here, celebrating New Years eve at a bonfire later on. This is also India, India has a special place in my heart, its a land of extremes sometimes and has many faces. You love it or hate it. Obviously I love it, its my third time now here and I definitely come back again in 2025. Best wishes for all 🙏💕
Ask everyone in there: What did you learn about who you are , how do you define yourself ? The quality of their answer will teach you more than you would ever guess.
Varanasi has the distinction of being on of the oldest living cities. From archeology & records it has been continously existed never abandoned & the actual age of the 1st settlements remains shrouded in time..
Ibhad to rewind a couple of times because I misheard it as "I am international Go Karting champ". Yoga teacher makes way more sense. 😅 This is a great video and I hope to visit there one day.
I am still watching the video, so not sure if it covers this and I am watching the part with the first Aghori teacher, but is it fair to say that Aghori are just ascetics devoted to Shiva and those deities directly connected to Shiva? That's the impression I get from his ritual room, what is the Aghori connection with human remains like the meditation thing he does with the skull? I am sure its moksha related but I would love more details on how.
@@ChrisKermisparsia is sister civilization of Bharat , parsia made from parshva people mentioned in Rigveda which was banished in India during battle of 10 kings which is won by kuru clan , who's king bharat become the emperor of aryavart and that's how Aryavart is called bharat since 7000 , parshva and bhartiya both are Arya but from different clans, Bharat is Chandra vans (moon clan ) , parshva from Agni (fire ) , Egypt which is called misra in bharat means Surya (sun clan ) , Armania again Sun clan , mittani (Syria ) you will find similarities to bharatvarsh, india is mother of all of this civilization
this has very important message, if you find it here. everybody are equal, when you thin so so behave like that, if everybody would think like that no king or leader wouldn't have life what differs from to another economically or service what we get
I was there some years ago. I loved throwing oranges at monkeys and watching them come back for revenge. Luckily, all the houses in the old town have barred windows. And those coffees at small restaurants… 10 spoons of sugar and 5-7 spoons of coffee - that was fun. But it wasn’t just these things. The river, the early boat rides across it, the religious worship, and the traditions - it’s definitely a place of contrasts.
Good video. The place can look old but it ought to be clean & aesthetic. Cleanliness is very much part of religiosity, don't forget that. I second your opinion.
A bit of wrong history depicted here.Rani Bhabani's army routed Sirajuddaula's army and drove them away from Natore's borders.She constructed the road from Howrah to Varanasi at her own expense.She came to Varanasi to live the rest of her life and get liberated.
If it's same in Iran or somewhere else, point blank stolen concepts. Islam came to existance merely 1400 years ago and christianity few years before that. It's a speck when compared with the origin of sanatan way of being. It's almost as old as life itself.
Chris, thanks for this video......Death happens, Moksha means Liberation and in "Hinduism" if you aren't freed the cycle of birth & rebirth called Samsara, you are incarnated again. This freedom is called Moksha. Otherwise when "death" happens, you will be reborn according to your karma.
Accepting every aspect of creation/life is so much more pleasant than being judgement. Just curious, what’s the difference between an Aghori and a tantric? . Beautiful video. Thank you.
@@ChrisKermis @ChrisKermis Sometimes twice a month a western tourist would come, but not a single Indian tourist. No cars, just a few pedal-powered rickshaws. Boats with oars were small and rare. No tourist boats. No petrol engines of any kind. Only mantra chants heard over loudspeakers somewhere.
Wow that must have been quite amazing to be there in those days. I’ve also witnessed quite some changes in various cities during my life and travels, though India for me has been a fairly recently visited country, just trips within the last 10 years
@@ChrisKermis My instance in Benares was like a strange psychodelic dream. I got in a state of upside down...near a magic time travel...but I had often a load of Bangh too. I was living in an indian private house where the old men of the family dayly prepared it for themselves to swallow a small ball of that herb.
God Shiv accepted whole nature along with multiple universe and creatures within Him. Why don't we?? Why do we hate with something?? If you accept as a whole, you are like supreme who contains nature within Him
He is not real, he talk about black magic but he dont tell that energy is energy it is never white or black, and aghori see everything as a child and if you put meat vegetable or poop in front of child it can pick anything without the feeling of disgust, main goal of aghori is to remove disgust, because disgust is main root cause of separatism/bias feeling of yours and mine then later this become hate because you start thinking that its your and other is not yours, and aghori path is never about satvik or tamsik, its like accept everything and everyone like Shiva accepted everyone and everything without bias
What makes me an person, Big bang create this world, does that mean I am part of this entire material of this solar system I eat foods and it becomes part of me, this body or this mind, which is me? Even if these religions offer answers as atma so and so Buddha said to question and find it for oneself
Ready Indian philosophy or bhagwat geeta you could understand, better see iskon they may help you in many questions, you don’t need to change religion, or see sadguru channel you may get good knowledge rather than normal people they could confuse you.
India still kept and practiced most of their traditions and rituals for thousands of years. It is still alive until today because it has a strong significance about it.
A lot to learn from their rich culture and heritage.
Hi Chris, Culture shocks a pretty normal for everyone outside their society, and Indian culture probably with India probably one of the hardest to digest, and I would like to thank you for experiencing our culture with an open mind. I have a-lot of respect for you having given the land, the people an opportunity . I hope you inspire more people to view Hinduism and India with such perspective. Hari Om Tat Sat
I've seen some videos lately on here which have been hugely negative, but that is not the truth. The truth is far more nuanced and there is both good and bad. Thanks to the excellent guides I had in Varanasi I was able to learn about the city and culture in a good way.
Yes, both good and bad. Usually people get polarised. Its good you are able to look both things since that is reality. An Indian here
well said brutha
Thank you for a non biased review, no prejudices, just open discussion.
Thankyou! Much appreciated that someone was interested in actual facts about Kashi. Kudos for your research and the documentary 👍🏽
Amazing video...real awakening regarding Agoris.. thanks a million.
Thanks for watching!
@@ChrisKermisMaybe you can talk to them about Sadhu Battle against the Mughal invasions, and how the sadhus gave them Muslims a smack down.
Thank you for shedding light on this, Varanasi has changed quite a bit, I remember going to the Ganges recently and am so happy things are finally improving in India! I hope the gov improves their social conditions especially for the children, especially the gypsy kids. Btw, aghori is Not for everyone, and should not be used as an excuse to imbibe more than you would.
At 40 mins start in the video I am sorry to say but much of the true ancient knowledge by your guides were not represented properly with its essence and it’s not their fault it’s just so complex and deep with such ancient knowledge and traditions it’s hard to explain in modern language and that too in English where words may fell short. Hope you will come back to India and dive much more deeper
Bro for a civilastion as old and complex as ours you cannot cover I am number of RUclips videos
Har Har Mahadev 🔱
Shambho Shivoham
The guide is so knowledgeable....love his explanations
India has changed so much since my first visit in the early 90's, it's just insane how much it has changed, even today, you can still meet the "old India" in rural areas!
Thank you for this video. Im in Varanasi for two weeks already, full of questions , and your video open my eyes for much more understanding about this special place.
That was a lot to take in but fascinating and I have learnt so much.
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
Hi Chris,
Finally I found, Best RUclips video regarding Varanasi, by a foreigner.
Quite unfortunate that you couldn't
enter Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
Jai Kalbhairav....🐕
Jai Kashi Vishwanath... 🔱
The first guy was Lalibaba.... he's the best aghori and true one...
I visited his ashram. He's an amazing candy crush player :D
....and he's a Bengali too 😊
Can he heal from extreme black magic??? Please provide me some information about him! I'm in a great trouble😓😓😓
Fascinating sharing on Varanasi and Ahgori. Thank you, Chris.
Very Inspirational video Great Going . I watched your Lucknow video also It was Amazing.
Great to hear, thank you!
Brilliant work Chris, being a non-Indian you have covered different aspects of Varanasi so well. If its OK, can you please provide contact number of the guide, he is so good. I am going to Varanasi in a few days , would love to see the city with him.
Thank you 🙏🏽 I put the contact details in the description so do use those to get in touch.
Grateful thanks.Lovely vedio.🙏
Thank you, Chris, for the wonderful video on Varanasi. Very well taken.
Really excellent work! Thank you Chris🙏
Very Nice❤❤❤The Divine is equally masculine as feminine...only in India❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love India eternally...❤❤❤❤
Good person those passing right knowledge, good video
Thank you
Well narrated and presented. I also appreciate your great gesture by not filming the cremation site from close range. Thanks and best wishes
Thank you 🙏🏽
At least you understood. Thanks for the lovely video ❤
Thank you for watching. I hope from this video more can see the real Varanasi rather than the sensationalist stuff you see on here, particularly about Aghori people
What a beautiful work Chris. Thank tou. You also had an amazing guide ❤ explore mkre and share more.
Thank you 🙏🏽 I was so lucky to have amazing people to guide me and show me the true Varanasi
Utterly mesmerizing, so captivating. What a lovely video and tons of thanks for sharing this lovely priceless video. 🙏👏😊
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Beautiful sharing thank u so much for sharing
Thank you
Been looking forward to this one
Glad you spotted it, it couldn’t have happened without the connection you gave me!
Excellent guide, merci
Thank you for making this video 🙏🌸So much appreciated 🙏🌸
Amazing video!
@@Cold2413Thank you!
Compared to other travellers I found your videos genuine cause of your intentions. You want to learn, experience and live the moment. The true essence of travel.
Thank you 🙏🏽
You are so positiv and full of life yourself sir this was really entertaining! Thank you so much!
Thank you, glad you liked it!
Very knowledgeable guide
Absolutely! I strongly recommend to anyone else visiting Varanasi
Thx for explonatiin I ve been 1 month ago in varanasi you showed me more details.and underrstanding thank you.
Nice work Chris, as a fellow Brit Ive been lucky to spend over 4 years travelling around India and probably 3 or 4 months in Varanasi. I still cant resist watching videos of the place but I usually switch off after a minute or two. Yours I watched to the end and thoroughly enjoyed. Well Done
Wow thank you! Any good recommendations you have of other places in India to visit and film that could have an interesting story?
@@ChrisKermis Hello Chris, well as Im sure youre aware, its very possible these days to travel around the world and u less youre very careful you will only interact with people in the tourist industry. Or people trying to sell you something, get a tip and so on. As a consequence theyre not being authentic, theyre shining you on as it were. My practice has always been to spend a long time in every place I go, even if I dont like it too much! Set up a routine, buy fruit from the same person, drink chai at the same time and place, after a few days, you then become of interest to 'real' people. Youre not doing the usual tourist things like taking pics of tourist spots. That 'you' are there to learn from the people and environment means people then come to meet you, enquire about you and then reveal so very much more than would be discovered with a cursory glance. Specific to India, anywhere really, pilgrimage and 'holy' places tend to be the cultural hotbeds where the philosophy of the people is most easily revealed. And like you, my motivation has always been to see why people do the things they do, their motivations and so on. What you do so wel is being interested in the people, and that will and has taken you a long way already!
hatsoff dude, seriously love this video and kudos to ur guides, they were so knowledgeable..
Those guys were awesome!
Superb video Chris👏🏻👍🏻
Thank you! 🙏🏽
Thank you for such a review with only agenda to learn and biased or burdened by prejudice. Superb Work ! Keep it coming Cheers
Thank you!
A great video, thank you. Very informative and super photography. Varanasi is somewhere I really want to go to.
I really felt you were quite patient in learning and letting others complete first. It was a long video but I enjoyed every second of it. At first my thought was this must be like any other foreign youtuber video where they try not to act condescendingly but somehow give themselves away while experiencing these things. But quite the opposite it was. Quite happy that I was proved wrong.
Thank you. You wouldn’t believe how much I had to cut out to make it this length!
appreciate this video! thanks for revealing the truth!
Thank you for watching! Far too much sensationalism around this on YT
Thank you very much Chris.❤
Thank you so much for your video. I’m now planning to go there based on your experience. Always knew about Kashi of course but you have made it more doable. Liked the sunrise to sunset edit.
My pleasure 😊
Very good presentation
Great video and wonderful people
i really enjoyed this video ....thank you🤗
India is a country that has always intrigued me, but I must say I do not think I would be able to handle it.
I often say, it’s not an easy country to travel. You can live in a bubble, but to do so is not to experience India
Everything's possible in India :) you love or hate it. I am going back in December, it's my third time but different area than Varanasi been there on my first trip and it was def a mind changer, one day I will go back. Namasté 🙏
trust me not because i'm an indian but this place is magical, spend a bit more on luxury and then travel you'll fall in love with India...
@@vanshmalhotra121 I am in India now for almost 4 weeks, Gokarna at the beach now for the next 2 days, peaceful and quiet here, celebrating New Years eve at a bonfire later on. This is also India, India has a special place in my heart, its a land of extremes sometimes and has many faces. You love it or hate it. Obviously I love it, its my third time now here and I definitely come back again in 2025. Best wishes for all 🙏💕
That's because u are not meant to go there. India is only for the sincere spirtual seeker.
Great stuff again buddy.
Cheers!
Well done! 👍
Great video thankyou for sharing the truth
It needed to be done, I hope you enjoyed the video
Great video
3:01 its not based of iranian style, they copies our style.
Its a must for the people of Southern India to visit Varanasi at least once in their lifetime.
Its great that you went looking for and shared the truth behind the hype❤
thanks for showing truth chris.
I enjoyed this video. I'll visit there one day. thanks a lot
Ask everyone in there:
What did you learn about who you are , how do you define yourself ?
The quality of their answer will teach you more than you would ever guess.
Thank you for this respectfull video.
Varanasi has the distinction of being on of the oldest living cities. From archeology & records it has been continously existed never abandoned & the actual age of the 1st settlements remains shrouded in time..
Baba Keenaram 🙏
Aghor Rama Paro Mantra Nasti tutwan Guru Paron.
❤thank u sir for giving a true perspective on this topic❤very informative n inspiring ❤
Thx to North people for conserving many schools of saivism
Ibhad to rewind a couple of times because I misheard it as "I am international Go Karting champ".
Yoga teacher makes way more sense.
😅
This is a great video and I hope to visit there one day.
As an Indian living in India, I experience a culture shock everytime I walk into a new neighborhood.
Very good guide
Thank you!
I am still watching the video, so not sure if it covers this and I am watching the part with the first Aghori teacher, but is it fair to say that Aghori are just ascetics devoted to Shiva and those deities directly connected to Shiva? That's the impression I get from his ritual room, what is the Aghori connection with human remains like the meditation thing he does with the skull? I am sure its moksha related but I would love more details on how.
I hope you enjoyed the rest of the video and found some of the answers from Rajan in the later part.
You are note able to stay with a real Aghori. You will not know who the real Aghori is. Real Aghori will not show off, they live in secret.
That was a key point that I made in the video.
@ChrisKermis Yes, exactly
That is called Indian club it went from India to iran
It was interesting to see after seeing something so similar in Iran. Still different though, for a start there was no actual wrestling in Iran
It is called a meel in Iran. Used in the Zurkhaneh
@@ChrisKermisparsia is sister civilization of Bharat , parsia made from parshva people mentioned in Rigveda which was banished in India during battle of 10 kings which is won by kuru clan , who's king bharat become the emperor of aryavart and that's how Aryavart is called bharat since 7000 , parshva and bhartiya both are Arya but from different clans, Bharat is Chandra vans (moon clan ) , parshva from Agni (fire ) , Egypt which is called misra in bharat means Surya (sun clan ) , Armania again Sun clan , mittani (Syria ) you will find similarities to bharatvarsh, india is mother of all of this civilization
I think this club is called ‘mudgal’ in India.
Nice video about other aspects of aghori
Varanasi is so very wondeful
it's a fantastic city, i had the pleasure of staying in Varanasi for 4 months. i swam across the Ganga River in 1980.
Wow!
City of MOKSHA!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
wow, great explanation of the flesh eating thing... makes more sense now. thanks for this, liked and subscribed!
Glad you liked it, I wanted to show the reality of something which has been overtaken online by sensationalism aimed simply at getting views.
Good work sir
which music did u use @52:02 ???
I don't recall but I get my music from Epidemic Sound
@@ChrisKermis ohk thanks anyway for the wonderful video !
Good person those passing right knowledge
Great job
Its very difficult for non-Hindus to understand the deep philosophy of Sanatana Dharma.
I like the guide. Good Hindu.
this has very important message, if you find it here. everybody are equal, when you thin so so behave like that, if everybody would think like that no king or leader wouldn't have life what differs from to another economically or service what we get
I was there some years ago. I loved throwing oranges at monkeys and watching them come back for revenge. Luckily, all the houses in the old town have barred windows.
And those coffees at small restaurants… 10 spoons of sugar and 5-7 spoons of coffee - that was fun.
But it wasn’t just these things. The river, the early boat rides across it, the religious worship, and the traditions - it’s definitely a place of contrasts.
What's the name of this aghori babaji
As he says himself, he goes by many names. You can find him through the guide that I put in the details to the video.
Best wishes, Chris.
Good video.
The place can look old but it ought to be clean & aesthetic. Cleanliness is very much part of religiosity, don't forget that. I second your opinion.
Sir how can I meet Facebook baba ji 🙏
I'm in Varanasi at the moment, how do I fìnd this Aghori on facebook? Tried looking him up there, but don't find him.
Please look up via the contacts in the description
A bit of wrong history depicted here.Rani Bhabani's army routed Sirajuddaula's army and drove them away from Natore's borders.She constructed the road from Howrah to Varanasi at her own expense.She came to Varanasi to live the rest of her life and get liberated.
If it's same in Iran or somewhere else, point blank stolen concepts. Islam came to existance merely 1400 years ago and christianity few years before that. It's a speck when compared with the origin of sanatan way of being. It's almost as old as life itself.
Did I hear 2500 years?
Chris, thanks for this video......Death happens, Moksha means Liberation and in "Hinduism" if you aren't freed the cycle of birth & rebirth called Samsara, you are incarnated again. This freedom is called Moksha. Otherwise when "death" happens, you will be reborn according to your karma.
it is 16000 years old city ... it existed 4000 years before Great Flood.
how do we contact baba ji?
Nandan in the description arranged my meeting with him
What is the Instagram of the baba that first interviewed?
@@aaronbyrne139 I don’t know, please use the contact of Nandan in the description
Accepting every aspect of creation/life is so much more pleasant than being judgement. Just curious, what’s the difference between an Aghori and a tantric? . Beautiful video. Thank you.
Aghora is the left hand path in tantric tradition.
Search for Dr Robert Svoboda for more details.
I was there 4month in 1979...But now it became very crowed, loud, and dirthy! Now it is like a tourist destination!
I didn’t see too many tourist there to be honest, although I’m sure it’s changed a lot since 1979
@@ChrisKermis @ChrisKermis Sometimes twice a month a western tourist would come, but not a single Indian tourist. No cars, just a few pedal-powered rickshaws. Boats with oars were small and rare. No tourist boats. No petrol engines of any kind. Only mantra chants heard over loudspeakers somewhere.
Wow that must have been quite amazing to be there in those days. I’ve also witnessed quite some changes in various cities during my life and travels, though India for me has been a fairly recently visited country, just trips within the last 10 years
@@ChrisKermis My instance in Benares was like a strange psychodelic dream. I got in a state of upside down...near a magic time travel...but I had often a load of Bangh too. I was living in an indian private house where the old men of the family dayly prepared it for themselves to swallow a small ball of that herb.
In a time where travel wasn’t as easy as it is now as well! You must have some fascinating stories to tell
God Shiv accepted whole nature along with multiple universe and creatures within Him. Why don't we?? Why do we hate with something??
If you accept as a whole, you are like supreme who contains nature within Him
How do they collect so much firewood for cremation? That must have a huge impact on the environment.
They live a normal life like ours, when they get a job offer as a monk or whatever they get dressed and act like they are monk.
He is not real, he talk about black magic but he dont tell that energy is energy it is never white or black, and aghori see everything as a child and if you put meat vegetable or poop in front of child it can pick anything without the feeling of disgust, main goal of aghori is to remove disgust, because disgust is main root cause of separatism/bias feeling of yours and mine then later this become hate because you start thinking that its your and other is not yours, and aghori path is never about satvik or tamsik, its like accept everything and everyone like Shiva accepted everyone and everything without bias
What makes me an person,
Big bang create this world, does that mean I am part of this entire material of this solar system
I eat foods and it becomes part of me, this body or this mind, which is me?
Even if these religions offer answers as atma so and so
Buddha said to question and find it for oneself
Ready Indian philosophy or bhagwat geeta you could understand, better see iskon they may help you in many questions, you don’t need to change religion, or see sadguru channel you may get good knowledge rather than normal people they could confuse you.