Exploring Naya Ghat and Ram ki Paidi in Ayodhya.

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Thanks for all the love and support on my last blog, and this is the second part of the blog in which I’ll be telling you about Naya Ghat and Ram Ki Paidi in Ayodhya. If you haven’t been through the last part of this blog, I highly recommend you to click on the link below that will redirect you to the same.

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Recently completed our journey of 11 days and I dropped my grandparents home. That’s why I wasn’t able to write for a few days back to Gurugram and I am going to office and everything is back on track, so I’ll be writing every day about my experiences that I had in past 15 to 20 days.

So we entered Ayodhya from the Dharma gate, which is this sun like structure made across the highway. One of very unique thing about this highway is that there is story of Ramayana written on the sides of the road. It’s not just written, but also depicted through the pictures that you can see the photographs below. This road is about more than a couple kilometres long and they have made this depictions after every 20 to 30 feet. So it must have been a really big project to make so many pictures on the side of the road.

You can see some extract from the Ramayana in the photograph below and above. The photograph above depicts the time when Mata Kekai asked for 14 years of Banwas of Ram and Sita from Raja Dashrath.

As already mentioned in the last block, that big vehicles for not allowed inside of the city, so we had to be on an electric rickshaw to get inside of the main city. I captured a selfie while I was sitting in the rickshaw that you can see in the below photograph.

After a few minutes of ride on the electric rickshaw, we reached our destination that was Naya Ghat. It was a newly built Ghat that was very near to the Lata Mangeshkar Chowk about which I wrote in the last blog.

It’s a Ghat, which is shallow built, so that people can take bath in it without the fear of drowning. It looks like a perfect place for taking a dip in the water, and the water also was not that bad.

Although this water was looking quite deep from a distance, but when I visited near to it, I found out that it was just a couple feet deep. At some place, it was even not able to touch the knees of people.

They were many vendors and shopkeepers who were selling the things that are required for worship on the side of the Ghat. The other side of this Ghat was called Ram ki Paidi and many people were present on the other side as well, but as it was convenient for me to be on the same side instead of going there, so I just stayed there.

People were selling all kinds of stuff that you can imagine to get at a Ghat like traditional clothes, Dias for lighting up in the river and jewellery, like necklaces and rings too that you can see in the photograph below.

Many people were taking bath inside of the rivers Saryu but because I came unprepared and didn’t want clothes to change, so I wasn’t able to take a dip inside of this holy river. I thought inside my head that I’ll surely take a deep inside of Ganga river when I reach Kashi.

Instead of taking dip in the river, I took a selfie with the Ghat and Ram Ki Paidi. I was feeling really peaceful and loved being on the side of the Ghat. It was mesmerising experience to see people taking dip inside of this holy river believing that it will wash their sins.

I just kept on walking further, and further in this Ghatt to see how well built it was. They were solar lighting installed on both sides of the Ghat, and this Ghat looked really clean with toilets on both sides.

I couldn’t have imagined a small city like Ayodhya to be such developed. Now it really look like city of Lord Ram, thanks to the Prime Minister Modi and chief minister of UP, Mr. Yogi Adityanath.

Talking of Yogi, the photograph above is my personal favourite photograph from all that I am posting in this blog. It’s a photograph of 2 Yogis who just came out of the river after taking the holy bath in it. What are your thoughts about this picture? Let me know in the comments below.

Add distance, I could see many temples and places of worship where I wanted to go and explore but before that as it was getting hotter, I thought that I’d spend some more time in this Ghatt with the cool breeze that was coming from the water and enjoy the view from there.

That’s all for today.

Thanks for passing by.

Peace ☮️