Hindusim Sacred Places and Holy Rivers (English)

Hinduism: Sacred Places and Holy Rivers provides brief information on many pilgrim places and holy rivers of India. Learning about them inspires pride for Hinduism's rich spiritual legacy and provides joy and inner peace.

For millennia, the Hindu tradition of pilgrimage to holy places and rivers (tirthas) of India embraces the aspirations for inner purification, strengthening of faith and encountering the divine for liberation. Tirthas or sacred places are where the divine encounters the temporal, the higher realms touch the lower, or the sacred meets the mundane. India is also a land of numerous holy rivers where Hindus take a dip to dissolve their sins and be blessed with spiritual merits. India has thousands of sacred places and holy rivers that owe their sanctity to the avatars of God and enlightened spiritual masters who were either born there or had visited them. India's sacred places and holy rivers spiritually invigorate and purify countless pilgrims.