- @Amrapali #txt-anno https://shalvikap.wordpress.com/tag/wari/ {u'tags': u'["Folk-dances-of-india","Maharashtra","Pandharpur","warkaris"]', u'quote': u'The warkaris walk to Pandharpur for about 20 days every year with intermittent stops at different places. The local people at\xa0these stops\xa0make\xa0arrangements\xa0to\xa0lodge and feed\xa0the warkaris.\xa0The pilgrims\xa0sing, dance and chant bhajans (devotional songs that praise the Lord, kind of like psalms). Reaching Pandharpur in the hundreds of thousands, the warkaris represent an enigmatic unbroken tradition, which has cut across centuries and barriers of caste and creed, despite the austerity and hardships involved.\xa0In this procession, a wide variety of people from all social and economic backgrounds join the sea of Warkaris and worship with same fervour & devotion.\xa0Professors, doctors, businessmen and administrators rub shoulders with poor farmers, labourers and artisans. For those 20 days at least, there are no differences between the pilgrims.\nThis pilgrimage has\xa0loads of\xa0positive effects,\xa0quite apart from the spiritual satisfaction of doing it. People\xa0get to know about\xa0diverse regions, social variety and change. They also try to bring about a social change by banning\xa0narcotics,\xa0like alcohol and tobacco. Most importantly, this helps people to realize how to live life on\xa0just the bare\xa0necessities.\xa0People\xa0who have experienced\xa0\xa0a lot of sorrow in their lives can\xa0achieve a sort of detachment from\xa0everyday life and\xa0\xa0get\xa0at\xa0least\xa0a\xa0temporary relief from it.\xa0This detachment from the material world and concentration on the spiritual world is central to the Indian concept of\xa0Moksha, the state of mind that leads to\xa0Nirvana, or heaven. In their own small way, the pilgrims aim to reach heaven, at least during the Wari.', u'editable': u'false', u'ranges': [{u'start': u'/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/p[4]', u'end': u'/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/p[5]', u'startOffset': 0, u'endOffset': 778}], u'text': u'Dindi-yatra Mahrshtra India', u'permissions': {u'admin': [], u'read': [], u'update': [], u'delete': []}} created: Sat, 11 Apr 2015, 02:39 PM UTC