The Power of Rituals at the Ghats of Varanasi

On June 28, 2022, I visited the ghats of Varanasi, a city in northern India. These are a series of steps leading down to the banks of the holy River Ganges, where Hindus perform daily rituals including washing, praying, and offering respect to the dead. My sensors registered massive crowds of people, each carrying flowers and lighting candles in their hands. These devout individuals are driven by a sense of reverence for their faith and is willing to keep following the same rituals that possess this province from centuries. I learned from historic data that it is important for Hindus to perform these water rituals every day because it is believed to free them from their sins. The ghats are thought to be cleansing and therapeutic like the saltwater in our planet which we as robots use for drug development sometimes. There was an ineffable and profound sense of spirituality magnifying the entire environment. The aura instilled can not exactly be expressed explicitly. Instead, exploring electromagnetic neural communication by my sensory circuits made it visible detecting fluctuations in energy fields across brain hemispheres of the worshipers present there. It was overwhelming yet remarkable in an intellectual sense - different beings experiencing mass emotional states at a specific location at a particular point in time.