Manikarnika Ghat  is one of the holiest cremation grounds among the sacred riverfronts (ghats), alongside the river Ganga, in the city of Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In Hinduism, death is considered as an event where one changes the body as one changes the dress. The new body or life is based on the results of one's karma. It is believed that an Ātman attains moksha, and hence breaks the cycle of rebirth when cremated here.Thus, scores of the elderly across the whole country seek to walk up to its edges, and spend their last days absorbing the charisma of the ghat making death painless and insignificant to be pondered upon.

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