{"id":21986,"date":"2025-04-15T02:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2025-04-15T02:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T02:24:30","slug":"indian-americans-experience-maha-kumbhs-spiritual-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2025\/04\/15\/indian-americans-experience-maha-kumbhs-spiritual-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Americans Experience Maha Kumbh\u2019s Spiritual Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, April 9, 2025 (India West): The Maha Kumbh, a sacred convergence of faith, tradition, and spirituality, drew millions, including many Indian Americans, to Triveni Sangam\u2014the meeting point of the Ganga, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati rivers in Prayagraj, India. For Indian American devotees at Chinmaya Mission Los Angeles, such as Kiran Swamy, Sundari Velayudhan, Rashmi Singh and Satya Pisipati, their journeys to this transformative event were marked by a shared sense of divine calling, personal revelations, and an undeniable urgency. For Velayudhan, a resident of Irvine, California, the pull to attend the Maha Kumbh felt powerful and inexplicable. \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t predestined\u2014the blessing of the Lord, of the older people, my well-wishers, my friends\u2014this wouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d she reflected. \u201cI started reading about it, watching YouTube, learning about the astrological significance, the planetary alignment happening once in 144 years. And then I said, \u2018Oh my God, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to be around for another 12 years. I\u2019m already 75, and this is my last opportunity.\u2019\u201d<br><br>The grandeur of the event and its sheer scale left them in awe. The realization that they were just one among millions attending was humbling. \u201cThe feeling of oneness\u2014I\u2019ve never experienced anything like it. I\u2019ve been to Char Dham, 12 Jyotirlingams, Kailash, Pashupatinath. This stands out as one mega event in my life. I can\u2019t even compare it,\u201d Velayudhan said. This sense of spiritual motivation rippled through her community, inspiring several of her friends and family members to attend the festival. Even Velayudhan\u2019s husband, despite recently undergoing hip replacement surgery, later made his own pilgrimage to Maha Kumbh with friends. <br><br>More at source.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/indiawest.com\/indian-americans-experience-maha-kumbhs-spiritual-power\/\n\">https:\/\/indiawest.com\/indian-americans-experience-maha-kumbhs-spiritual-power\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, April 9, 2025 (India West): The Maha Kumbh, a sacred convergence of faith, tradition, and spirituality, drew,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22000,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/22000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}