The Kumbh mela is far more than just another "religious pilgrimage" for it represents one of the last extant great migrations of mankind, every 12 years since as far as written human history can remember humans have come to the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the almost mythical Saraswati to bathe in the holy confluence and wash away the sins of a lifetime.Remember when you see it that it is not just religion but a facet of human civilizational evolution that has seen human civilization grow from the small agarian communities we once were to the globally connected networked civilization we are now!