Varanasi Touring Yatra | February 24 – March 7, 2027

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Varanasi Touring Yatra | February 24 – March 7, 2027 | Tuition $3350

Varanasi, also known as Kashi or Banaras, is considered one of the holiest cities, a place where the veils between the spiritual and physical realms are believed to converge. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In 1897, Mark Twain, who also loved India, said of Varanasi, “Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.”  

Varanasi is the sacred city of Shiva, the god of transformation. Hindus believe that bathing in the Ganges River there remits sins and that dying there ensures release of a person’s soul from the cycle of its transmigrations: you will not be reborn again into this world of impermanence and suffering. Many Hindus go there to die.

Ram Dass has often said that the time he spent in India, especially Varanasi, changed his understanding of death and helped to rid him of his fear.”You have to get close to the root of fear, which is ego identification, because as long as you think you are vulnerable, you are going to be afraid. We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there’s a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence.”

Ram Dass says, “The first time I went to India, with David Padua, we stopped in Benares, and I walked the streets and saw people with sickness and disease, lepers, emaciated people with only one cloth wrapped around them squatting or lying in the street. It was shocking. I felt superiority, Western pity. ‘Why don’t they have hospitals? Why don’t they help these people?’ I couldn’t stand it. It was overwhelming. When I got back to the hotel, I actually hid under the bed. Then I met Maharaj-ji, and I began to understand differently. I returned to Benares alone, and I found that I was no longer the Westerner who had been so afraid. I understood that Hindus went to Benares to die, to release their souls. It was a great blessing for them to be there. I walked the streets, and I looked in people’s eyes and saw that they pitied me! They were secure in being in the right place at the right time, and I was a wandering ghost, not knowing where to go.”

Tuition $33500

The Vrindavan Touring Yatra is an all-inclusive 12-day yatra experience including transportation within India, food, chai, room, entrance fees, and all tips and donations.

Varanasi Touring Yatra Itinerary:

• Varanasi- Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple, Kashi Vishwanath Shiva Temple, Assi ghat Ganga shore, Sunrise Ganga boat ride
• Sarnath- the location where the Buddha gave his first speech after attaining enlightenment, the first turning of the wheel of dharma.
• Allahabad- to visit Dada Mukerjee’s home where Maharajji spent time, to the Kumba Mela grounds and the Triveni sangam confulence of the Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers. Reclining Hanuman temple.

Please join us on the 12-day exciting traveling tour where we move through these different locations having deep spiritual experiences  safely shared together with satsang.

All  payments are non-refundable. Absolutely no exceptions. Emergency cancellations will be forwarded to a future credit. Thank you and Namaste. Please Contact Us if you have any questions.