This Man Showers with Boiling Milk
- 12 years ago
This Man Showers with Boiling Milk - as part of the news and politics series by GeoBeats.
Most of us are content with a nice, hot water shower. However, a priest in India takes it a bit further by bathing with boiling milk.
According to NBS News, this 80 year old man uses 9 decorated pots of milk and heats them on stone furnaces. As soon as the milk is fully boiling, the priest dumps scalding pot after pot over his head in front of amazed onlookers!
This is done during the Hindu festival of Navratri which is a nine-day religious festival involving various activities and rituals around food, worship, and dance.
In a vast country like India, you can find all kinds of spiritual and religious practices and some of them are quite extreme.
Particularly during the major festivals around the country, you can witness unusual acts being performed by holy men who want to demonstrate their commitment to their religious beliefs.
There are many who meditate for months at a stretch, don't eat or drink for days and subject themselves to intense physical pain.
As for the priest using hot milk, he has been performing his ritual for years and plans to continue to do so in the holy city of Varanasi, India.
Most of us are content with a nice, hot water shower. However, a priest in India takes it a bit further by bathing with boiling milk.
According to NBS News, this 80 year old man uses 9 decorated pots of milk and heats them on stone furnaces. As soon as the milk is fully boiling, the priest dumps scalding pot after pot over his head in front of amazed onlookers!
This is done during the Hindu festival of Navratri which is a nine-day religious festival involving various activities and rituals around food, worship, and dance.
In a vast country like India, you can find all kinds of spiritual and religious practices and some of them are quite extreme.
Particularly during the major festivals around the country, you can witness unusual acts being performed by holy men who want to demonstrate their commitment to their religious beliefs.
There are many who meditate for months at a stretch, don't eat or drink for days and subject themselves to intense physical pain.
As for the priest using hot milk, he has been performing his ritual for years and plans to continue to do so in the holy city of Varanasi, India.