When you walk over burning embers, do you make sure your saree doesn’t get burnt? Or do you give it your all to get to the other side quickly as possible? Two devotees demonstrate both approaches at the Muchakandi Veerabhadreshwara agni mahotsava in Bagalkot on Tuesday.
Photograph: Sangamesh Badiger/ Karnataka Photo News
Self-punishment or self denial of legal pleasures, what is the purpose of it, I wonder.
If only faith could remove pain, jealousy, hatred and hunger.
I think she wants to avoid getting tripped by the saree and fall.
it has nothing to do with faith. it takes the brain three whole seconds to register the burning coal, so the trick is to keep the contact time to a bare minimum, nobody gets burnt.
Actually, this does not cause much pain. The ashes covering the coal provide protection. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalking
They do this stunt in some corporate team building exercises too nowadays.