Meditation on the Ganges

Photographer

Thibault Gerbaldi

Category

People Photography - Culture

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2026

Country / Region:

United States

Two sadhus drift across the Ganges at sunrise as the first light bathes Varanasi in gold. While one offers food to the gulls, the other sits in silent meditation, embodying two complementary paths of devotion: service to the living world and the search for inner stillness. On the sacred river that has drawn pilgrims for thousands of years, moments like these remind us that spirituality is often found in the quiet rhythm of everyday rituals.