When a YouTuber visited India's "city of death"

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Many people flock to this sacred Indian city in search of a unique purpose. An Israeli YouTuber unravels the mysteries behind their journeys

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00:00You can see bodies float inside the river here.

00:07Why people come before they feel they are going to die?

00:11Because they are sure when I die in Varanasi, Shiva City, I will go directly to Nirvana, to heaven.

00:17This is the only place for the high caste guys.

00:30And you need to pay more money for being here.

00:33Actually, I cannot smell a dead body smell or something.

00:39And Ashok says this is the power of Shiva.

01:00From Nirvana to heaven.

01:02We have a lot of hospice houses in the city.

01:06Do those people need to pay money for being in the hospice?

01:09Not charged. After they leave, they can make a donation if they have the possibility.

01:15Otherwise, it is not necessary that they have to pay.

01:18All the bodies arrive here, they go directly to the river for us to wash the body.

01:22To wash the sin of the dying person.

01:24After washing.

01:26After the body is purified in the holy river, they dip the body in the water.

01:29After that, they open cloth from the face of the body.

01:32That every family and relative have to give five times Ganga water to the dead body's mouth.

01:38And say last time Namaste, goodbye.

01:44But I heard that sometimes when the body is not burned till the end,

01:50you can see bodies float inside the river here.

01:53Child, pregnant woman, holy man.

01:57When a person gets bitten by a snake from a cobra.

02:00Because cobra is the necklace of God Shiva.

02:02Yes.

02:03And when there is a holy death, that body has to go in the river with a heavy stone tied.

02:08So you just put it in the river with the stone.

02:11Yes.

02:12And this is the reason why I see floating because they're not burned.

02:15They throw them like completely.

02:18Because when the body is already pure, they don't have to be purified in the fire.

02:27This is the wood that they use to burn the bodies.

02:42And Ashok, there are different types of woods, right?

02:46Yes.

02:47Like more expensive, less expensive.

02:50Okay, mango tree is supposed to be expensive or not expensive?

02:57Not really expensive.

02:58Not expensive.

02:59Tell me if there is someone that don't have money.

03:01Yes, most expensive.

03:02Most expensive is sandalwood.

03:04Sandalwood.

03:05Okay.

03:06If some family cannot buy enough wood.

03:08Yes.

03:08They can take the woods left from another fire and mix with some new body of that and help proper burning.

03:14Okay.

03:14This is called Shiva eternal fire.

03:17It has been burning here now for 3,500 years old.

03:21Owner of this place.

03:22This is the fire guys.

03:26Very, very hot.

03:27They keep this fire from generation to generation.

03:31They look after this fire.

03:32In this mode, it's a fire on grass.

03:34And finally, it takes fire to body.

03:36And it turns five times around the body.

03:39Yes.

03:40And it starts burning.

03:41Okay.

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