Magh Mela row: Seer leaves 'with heavy heart'; Akhilesh says BJP 'blinded by power'

NEW DELHI: Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati connected Wednesday ended his sit-in protestation and departed the Magh Mela successful Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, 10 days aft helium was "stopped" from taking a beatified dip astatine the Sangam.Before leaving, helium said helium was returning with a “sense of emptiness” and a “heavy heart.”“Today, words are not supporting me, and my dependable feels heavy. We travel to this ineffable onshore of Prayagraj seeking spiritual peace, but contiguous we are returning with a consciousness of emptiness and a dense bosom that we had ne'er imagined,” the seer told reporters, PTI reported.“Taking a dip successful the Sangam is simply a way to the restitution of the interior soul, but my caput is truthful distressed contiguous that I americium leaving without taking a bath,” helium added.Commenting connected the developments astatine Prayagraj, Avimukteshwaranand remarked they had “shaken my interior self” and prompted him to rise questions astir “collective religion successful justness and humanity.”On January 18, Swami Avimukteshwaranand was travelling successful a palanquin to the Sangam—the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati—on the juncture of Mauni Amavasya erstwhile a quality erupted aft administrative and constabulary officials asked him to dismount and proceed connected ft for the ritual bath, citing dense crowds.

The Mela medication alleged that the seer and his supporters broke a barricade connected a pontoon span and moved towards the ghats, creating superior challenges for the constabulary successful assemblage management.Following the incident, allegations were exchanged betwixt Avimukteshwaranand and the constabulary administration, aft which helium launched a sit-in protest.Akhilesh attacks BJP, UP govtSamajwadi Party (SP) main Akhilesh Yadav attacked the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh authorities pursuing the seer’s announcement, calling his departure from the Magh Mela without bathing successful the Sangam an “extremely ominous” incident.“The BJP's arrogance broke a contented that has continued since clip immemorial. Jagadguru Shankaracharya ji leaving the Magh Mela connected the ineffable onshore of Prayagraj without taking a beatified bath is an highly ominous incident,” Yadav wrote connected X.

The erstwhile Uttar Pradesh main curate stated that the full Sanatan assemblage was not lone wounded but besides gripped by fear. “The planetary Sanatan nine is profoundly pained and filled with an uncertain consciousness of apprehension,” helium posted.Yadav alleged that the ruling enactment could person acted otherwise but was “blinded by power”.“If the BJP and its associates wanted, they could person shed the arrogance of power, carried him connected their shoulders and ensured his ineffable bath astatine the Triveni Sangam, thereby upholding his honour. The BJP is intoxicated with the pridefulness of powerfulness acquired done corrupt means, which is stopping it from doing so,” the SP president added.He said hurting saints could ne'er bring well-being. “No 1 tin attain happiness by hurting the hearts of saints. A bigger mistake than committing an mistake is not seeking forgiveness,” Yadav said, adding that “no governmental station tin beryllium greater than the honour of saints”.Invoking spiritual texts, helium warned of consequences implicit the developments involving the seer. “Do those who make obstacles successful spiritual rituals request to beryllium told what they are called? Our epics intelligibly authorities that nary wrongdoer ever escapes the punishment of arrogance,” helium said.Yadav concluded his station with the message: “Hurt saints mean the extremity of power.”