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Will not take part in ‘shahi snan’ in Yamuna except water is clear: Hindu seers

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Underlining the Yamuna’s acute water air pollution, three outstanding Hindu seers of the nation on Saturday vowed to not take one other bathtub on different ‘shahi snan’ days in the course of the ongoing Vrindavan Kumbh close to right here except the river water is clear.
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The declaration to boycott the ‘shahi snan’ within the river on three remaining auspicious days — March 9, 13 and 25 — and thereafter throughout subsequent Kumbh gala’s was made by the chief of the Ayodhya-based Maha Nirvani Akhara, Mahant Dharm Das.
Mahant Dharam Das made the declaration in presence of the chiefs of two different Vaishnavi akharas –– Maha Nirmohi and Maha Digambar akharas.

“In the next ‘shahi snan’, we would take the holy dip in the Yamuna, only if the water is clean,” Mahant Dharm Das mentioned, with the chiefs of two different outstanding akharas nodding in settlement.
The Mathura district administration had promised to rearrange for clear water within the river at its Devraha Ghat in the course of the Vrindaban Kumbh by discharging extra water from the Ganga however nothing seems to have been accomplished, he mentioned.
Mahant Dharam Das made the vital comment on the air pollution within the Yamuna after taking a holy dip together with the 2 different seers on the Devraha Ghat of the river.
The three seers earlier led a procession of saints to the river financial institution for ‘shahi snan’ throughout which they have been showered with flower petals all alongside the route of the procession, mentioned Nagendra Pratap, a authorities official deputed to oversee preparations for the Vrindavan Kumbh truthful.

The three different shahi snan days of March 9, 13 and 25 coincide with ekadashi (month’s eleventh days), amawasya (moonless day) and one other pious day as per the Hindu calendar, mentioned Pratap.