 When Athens was not even thought of, when Egypt did not exist, when Rome did not even exist in people's minds, Kashi was, it is older than legend, that ancient. Kashi is a phenomenal yantra, like never before or never after. The city was not just a dwelling place, it was a mechanism to go beyond all limitations for this tiny little organism to connect with the larger organism of the cosmos. People have been traveling here from across the world for thousands of years. Gautama came here to give his first teaching and if you're born in India, your only dream is to go to Kashi.