Fazal Sheikh, Moksha

Moksha

Fazal Sheikh

Publisher
Steidl
Year
2005
ISBN
978-3-86521-125-5
Specifications
Hindi
22.5 x 27 cm
280 pages
Hardback / Clothbound

For five hundred years the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India has been a haven for India’s dispossessed widows. Cast out by their families and condemned by strict marital laws which deny them legal, economic and, in extreme cases, even human rights, they have made their way to the city to worship at its temples and live in its ashrams, surviving on charitable hand-outs or begging on the streets. In Vrindavan they worship the young god Krishna, who invades their dreams, helping them to cast off memories from their past life and prepare for a new and better life to come. Their ultimate dream is to reach Moksha—heaven—where they will find freedom from the cycle of death and rebirth and live surrounded by their gods forever.

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