This Hariyali Amavasya The Ghats Will Overflow & Pooja Will Need Help

While many will celebrate Hariyali Amavasya with prayers for prosperity and growth, Pooja Sharma will be at the ghats of Haridwar, not for herself, but for those who can no longer speak, cry, or ask for help.

Pooja Sharma sees it.

She sees the piles of asthiyaan, ashes of those who have no one. She hears the silence that surrounds them, no chants, no tears, no goodbyes. She feels the weight, not just of the urns she carries, but of the hundreds of souls trapped.

And this year… the burden is heavier than ever. Because this summer was cruel, the heat claimed too many lives, elderly, abandoned, unknown. And this time, the burden is heavier than ever.

Yet Pooja continues, with unwavering faith and a heart full of seva. She will immerse each asthi in the holy waters of the Ganga, performing every ritual with love and devotion, so that these souls can finally be freed, their spirits at rest, their journey complete.

She has chosen to be their voice. Their family. Their last hope.

This 24th July, she will travel to Haridwar, where she will immerse every asthi in the sacred Ganga, a ritual as ancient as time, believed to release the soul and grant moksha. Not a single name will go unspoken. Not a single kalash will be left behind.

But she is drowning, not in emotion, but in expenses. Because this isn’t one or two rituals. This is hundreds of last rites. The samagri, the priests, the transport, the rituals they cost more than she can bear.

And so, with folded hands, she turns to you. “Whatever you give, do it in the name of your own ancestors. Those who once walked this earth before you. Give with their memory in your heart and they will bless you, and your family, in ways you cannot imagine.”

Because those who help send forgotten souls home, are never forgotten by the heavens.

 Do not let this Amavasya pass like any other. Do not scroll past the cries of those who can no longer speak. Be the light in someone’s afterlife.

This Hariyali Amavasya, the ghats will overflow, let your kindness be there to meet them. Donate now. Complete their journey.