Most essential instructions to be followed during your stay at Kashi.

This is in connection with our recent visit to Kashi/Varanasi.

While at Kashi, we were instructed to practice five essential rules during our entire stay, which are mentioned in Telugu, in the above picture. These are the basic instructions to be followed during the entire duration of the stay and then there are many more religious practices, rituals and duties to be performed at the Temples and River Ganga and of course lots of sightseeing. This article is not about all the religious rituals and sightseeing but only about these essential rules. We sincerely followed these instructions for the entire 4D 3N duration of our stay, but for the last instruction, that is sleeping on the floor.

Here are the five instructions in Telugu and English:

1. నగ్న పాద పయనం – Walk barefoot

2. గంగా నదీ స్నానం – Bath in River Ganga by taking three dips.

3. విశ్వేశ్వర స్వామి దర్శనం, స్మరణం – Darshan of Kashi Vishwanath and chanting OM Namah Shivaya

4. ఏక భుక్తం – Regular meal for lunch and fruits or light tiffin for dinner.

5. ధరిత్రి శయనం – Sleep on the floor.

We are extremely happy that we had a satisfactory darshan of Kashi Vishwanath four times and have bathed in River Ganga and visited all the important temples and places of interest in Varanasi and Sarnath.

And we have absolutely no regrets for additionally not having non-veg food during this pilgrimage and this is for the first time we skipped non-veg food during our outstation trips!