{"id":4996,"date":"2023-01-15T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:10:17","slug":"gangasagar-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gangasagar-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangasagar Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Gangasagar Mela:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is known as the <strong>world\u2019s second largest human congregation<\/strong> after Kumbh.<\/li>\n<li>It happens every year <strong>during Makar Sankranti.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The mela is <strong>held at Sagar Island.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been <strong>mentioned in Indian epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata<\/strong>, putting its existence as early as 400 BCE.<\/li>\n<li>The pilgrims after taking a <strong>dip in Ganga also visit the temple of Kapil Muni<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Who is Kapil Muni:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kapila or Maharishi Kapila is a Vedic sage (rishi) traditionally c<strong>onsidered to be the original proponent of the <\/strong><i><strong>Samkhya<\/strong><\/i><strong> system <\/strong>of Indian philosophy.<\/li>\n<li>He is said to have lived in the Indian subcontinent, around the <strong>sixth or seventh century B.C.E.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kapila is described within the Puranas as an<strong> incarnation of Vishnu<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is known for teaching a process of liberation known as <strong>bhakti yoga.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Buddhist sources present Kapila as a <strong>well-known philosopher whose students built the city of Kapilavastu<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is not only renowned in Hinduism, but also in Buddhism.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Kapila shared <strong>many similarities with Buddha<\/strong>, including an <strong>emphasis on meditation<\/strong> as a technique for removing suffering, <strong>belief that the Vedic gods were subject to limitations and conditions, and dislike for ritual and Brahmanic doctrines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where is Sagar Island Located?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sagar Island, <strong>westernmost island of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta<\/strong> lies in\u00a0 <strong>West Bengal<\/strong> state.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It lies at the <strong>mouth of the Hugli (Hooghly) River<\/strong>, an arm of which separates it from the mainland to the east.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Samkhya Philosophy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is one of 6 sytems of Indian philosophy. Samkhya adopts a consistent dualism of matter (prakriti) and the eternal spirit (purusha).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/kolkata\/record-pilgrims-at-gangasagar-west-bengal-ministers-demand-national-mela-status\/article66374772.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Record pilgrims at Gangasagar, West Bengal Ministers demand National Mela status<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gangasagar Mela happens every year during Makar Sankranti is held at Sagar Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}