It is time to educate the ignorant populace taking the dip in the river will not wash away the sins instead they pollute, which is the cause of concern.
When the whole universe is made of a single clay and that single clay is the Soul or consciousness then it is erroneous to consider only some rivers as holy and sacred.
The Soul, the God in truth alone is holy the universe is merely an illusion.
That is why Rig Veda says: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Sage Sankara: ~ Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even hundreds of pranayamas can give us the knowledge about our own Self. The firm realization of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)
The obsession with "our sins" having been "washed away by the water of river would be regarded as evidence of a serious mental illness in an individual within any sane society, but when this is an obsession of millions of people it becomes "religious faith", held by many others to be something that should never be criticized.
It was desperately important for the believers of their belief system for some reason that others shared their beliefs because they assume that their religious doctrine is literally true, and then justify their beliefs because "God says so in their doctrine ".
It is no use of arguing with someone who has faith in his religion because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief.
One has to know the fact that the religious God cannot exist without his existence. The truth depends on the Soul, the Self.
The Soul, the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.
Thus it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
