 Cantaloupes are awful. You're a freak if you like cantaloupes. Hey, welcome back to our stupid directors eating sub-corban. I'm Rick and you can follow us on Instagram Twitter from our juicy content And I'll follow some of my personal YouTube videos links right down there for you What's that maggot? Oh, no, you you dropped some of the worst fruit ever Anyways There's only a few videos that are gonna be the via Skype like this. It's just we ran out of time good And so most of the videos you're gonna be seeing We'll probably we'll probably be together unless it's an old one or the few that we had to do during this session Yeah Sorry, that's what you have to do Today, we had to do this because the festival it just started. This is a festival starting July 1st Say the name pun the cantaloupe festival the cantaloupe festival. Yes that one under par worry Pandapar war for it. Mm-hmm. It is a yearly pilgrimage of 21 days to pan pan da Panda par ma ma ha ma la Hastra china part is the seat of the Hindu god with soba also known as this thall sorry guys, there's a bunch of names here But yeah, so that's what it is. It's a pilgrimage basically of 21 days. So yeah, that's what we're gonna learn about. Cool. All right, ready? Yep, gotta count down. Now that's just gonna make the habit even worse, the fact that I have to keep doing it. Yep. Three, two, one. Dharangarangarangarangarashiva. So that sounds like... Who are these people? I don't know. Where are they going? I don't know. Who is leading them? I don't know. It's not obsession, neither a superstition. It is that power which unites everyone with one force, one aim, but many names. Pandula. Pangalors. 11th day of waxing moon period in a Hindu month of Ashar, the spiritual process of Vahari begins. Whenever this time comes closer, Pandarpur, the town of Vithoba, becomes happy to welcome place for all Vaharkaris. But you must be wondering, what is Vahari? What? Palakas or footprints of Santadaneshwar Maharaj and Santadukaram Maharaj are carried in a palki from their respective shrines to Pandarpur. Footies come from all parts of Maharashtra and northern Karnataka, bringing together the truest sense of Marathi culture. People walk 150 miles for 21 straight days singing bhajans throughout their journey. Wow! 150 miles? Yeah, that's what they said, 21 days. They have that faith that he is everywhere, seeing them, saving them, looking after them. This is the only place where a male god Panduranga is called Mauli, meaning a mother. When you walk with Vaharkaris in Vahari, you will see everyone calling each other Mauli. Yes, that is a message they want to share. They see God in every person. It's a woman participating equally in Vahari. There were no differences between people based on gender, caste or any other thing. For them, every person walking along is a Vaharkari, a Mauli, a Lord Vithala himself. This was my first time participating in Vahari, but not for a moment. I felt like an outsider. Just go through this experience once and tell me, do you find Vaharkari in yourself? Did the sound just cut off? There's no sound. That's why I looked at you to make sure I was hearing and seeing the same thing. I wonder if they got copyrighted and they just decided to... We know how that is, yeah? Interesting. One, it's so funny because when the group texted me, they were like, oh yeah, there was a festival. Every three days there's a different festival. So to walk 150 miles is insane. Yeah, I'm doing the calculation here. You all could probably do it off the top of your head. That's 21 days, right? Yeah, so they're walking seven, eight miles a day for three weeks. They're walking to a specific place, but does that factor in getting back? I don't know. I was to keep Uber busy after that and going back. Because to get the 150 miles, if it's that way and it's not like 150 miles round trip... It's like walking down to San Diego for miles. Yikes. Holy cow. Somebody let me know because now I'm like, is it 300 miles that they walk? Round trip, yeah because they've got to go back unless it lands them somewhere and they're able to take transportation in some way, a train or something. How many of the festivals are about pilgrimaging? Good question. The first two to come to mind are this one and obviously the one in the mountains, the movie, the avalanche story. The Sikhs, because we learned about that one at the border, remember in Pakistan? Yes, yes. That the Sikhs do pilgrimage too sometimes. And that they had to do that special thing through the border fence, remember? Yes. Yes, I'm not sure. How many include pilgrimage? Clearly it's like a big thing kind of like, because in Christianity fasting is a big thing obviously. I think fasting is actually a big thing in most religions. It is. Well, and there's the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are supposed to take at least once in their life. Yeah. And is a pilgrimage just going somewhere? That's basically what that means. Yes, a pilgrimage is a journey. So it doesn't have to be walking? No, not necessarily. No. Just pilgrimage meaning you will go that way. But obviously some of them do necessitate the specific way you pilgrimage being walking. Some do that. I wonder if they're, I bet they're not doing it this year. If they are, it's got to be drastically modified. Everything India does during the pandemic needs to be drastically modified because there's such a close-knit people. And they're just on top of each other and they don't have a problem with that. Like I do. Well, I was actually thinking about it while we were watching it and how we're meant to be relational. Human beings are meant to be relational. That's why one of the deepest forms of brutal punishment is isolation. It's to keep you separated from other human beings and to be alone without interaction. So we're designed for interaction and proximity. Yeah, isolation sounds awesome. Yeah, not so much. Anyways, I don't know what you say if you are celebrating this, but if you are happy, that's all I say. Yeah, Pandapariwari, we practice it with Happy. Happy Pandapariwari, everybody. That was awesome. And I'd let us know if anybody's actually doing a pilgrimage this year. I know a lot of stuff is canceled. Yeah, and if you've done it before, let us know. Put comments, tell us your story. BEEP