PUSHKAR - RAJ
The Lone Earthly Abode of Brahma

The other ghats too have there own odd, yet sacred kinship with some celebrity of the other, and so thronging of people during their visits is observed from dawn to dusk. These gnats are famous for other purposes also. Many pilgrims visit only to performing sraddhas on these gnats, believing that every performance yields inexhaustible merit. Even meditation or chanting of Brahma's name sitting on any one of the gnats is assured of countless merits and infinite bliss; for, the Vanaparva of the Mahabharata elaborates its sanctity, and antiquity in such glowing terms that a mere sight of this august thirtha-Pushkar ensures Kaivalya; it ends the narration with: "Everything was pure in Krita Age; in Treta, Pushkar became sacred; in Dwapara, Kurukshetra; and in the Kati, Ganga became sacred".

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