Another step from *India to Bharat*.Completed my first *kaanwad yatra* from Janapao Janmasthali of Bhagwan Parshuram to Chakki Waale Mahadev in Mhow, a distance of about 20 km over two days.
Better late than never for me, the Yatra turned out to be another aspect of Bharat that I, raised an Indian, was missing. The latter was told and reinforced the idea that this was an annual ritual designed to vent the energies of ragtag *Shiv Bhakts*, known more for being “nuisance”.
The real takeaway for me, bigger than the sheer thrill of shared faith during ritual oblations or of *chanting Bol Bam* on a grueling route, was how beautifully Kaanwad manifests Bharat. Connecting geographical points, that all pilgrimages of Bharat essentially are, undertaken during *Saavan* when not much can be done in agricultural fields is spent understanding peoples and environs better. One picks up water from a neighbourhood water body, consecrates it with the Holiness of *Bhagwan Shiv(the Supreme presence of Nature,* munificent, loving with equally proportionate fury when angered) and renews the holiness of one's temples. A sort of revisiting the deep connect between Nature, God and Man that *Sanatan Dharma* is all about.
The physical challenge of traveling long distances with *Holy Water*, the honing of raw power, jointsman ship and connect to the people in the villages and towns that Kaanwad passes through is a reaffirmation of faith in our small existential microcosms, which together build the vastness of Bharat.
Some vignettes now. More to follow with my perceptions of the profound and little ways Kaanwad makes *Bharat* what it is, thus making it a natural target of unnatural foes.
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