What holds the world's record as the largest gathering of people coming together for a common purpose? Well, I answered Wrestlemania, but it looks like I was wrong.

The Maha Kumbh Mela (Great Festival of the Urn) is a spiritual festival held every twelve years near the Indian town of Allahabad.

Pilgrims gather here from all over India and around the world: gurus, spiritual leaders and their devotees, and ascetic sadhus who emerge from their solitary forest retreats and mountain caves.

They come to the sangam - the sacred confluence of three rivers: the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati.

On special set days everyone takes a holy dip, a ritual believed to guarantee release from the cycle of rebirth - literally a short cut to the state of purest bliss... nirvana.

Sounds interesting, no? Well, the documentary below isn't the source of the above quote, but it is about the same ritual, and it sports an abundance of interesting religious adornment. So grab some nectar, sit back and relax to watch the Google video that's rocketing up the charts, "Kumbha Mela -- The World's Largest Act of Faith":