~ Survival ~

Now that all the fervor over the Maha Kumbh Mela has stopped in the media & social media, a strange thought occurred, what do the Sadhus do in their daily lives. What do they do for survival? How do they earn their food?

I wonder what the sadhus do everyday for daily survival to show up in such large numbers every 12 years. Guess the daily needs for a Naga sadhus are minimal - food, water & weed - when compared to others on the planet.

I would like to read what they do for living to source their food. Assuming that they can get Water & Weed without any cost :)

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Essentialism

All of us are consumers & have their own needs and desires. Some of these needs are a necessity, while other needs are basically for pleasure. The basic necessity applies to all stratas of the socio-economic across the society.

While an individual's pursuit for pleasureful needs never cease at any point of life. The pleasure oriented needs may be driven by technology advancement, professional, peer related or status symbol.

The necessity needs are necessary for survival. However, the pleasureful needs can spread its wings based on a person's economical might to accomplish the object or goal. All of us fail to understand what actually brings the pleasure. The branded object or the way we project that object which inherently drives the pleasure.

Here is an interesting article "How Expectations Can Turn Anything From Worthless To Priceless" by Paul Bloom. Paul is is a psychologist and author of How Pleasure Works.

It all boils down to what 17th Century poet John Milton said - “The mind is its own place, And in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”