Majestic, Magnificient and truly one place I passionately dream of going to. Iam fortunate that i atleast know that such a magical place exists on earth. The first time I heard about Kailash was in 2002 when I happened to play a cd on Kailash yatra by Ramakrishna mission. When i look back today, I had never known or yearned to see this place till somebody gave me the cd to watch. Watching a video of it, itself aroused unexpected overwhelming feelings in me, which happened very naturally. Iam sure this is an experience that everyone goes through. Surprisingly, i got addicted to watching the cd almost everyday. After a month or so some of my very good friends came over to visit me. They gave me a small bottle of water and asked me to have it like theertham. I was taken aback when i learnt that this was the water of the Infinite manasarovar lake near Kailash. For a moment, I was zapped as then "Kailash Manasarovar" had formed an underlying current in my thought process. To top it all, in about a year from then, I found myself watching a presentation on a kailash mansarovar trip, to which we were invited. I stopped to think and realised, it was God himself who put this beautiful desire in me and I made up my mind, I must go to Kailash atleast once in a lifetime. The experience that one gets by just gazing at a picture of Kailash is unimaginable. I've always felt I belong there and I've been thrown far away because of my own doings. Iam like a baby who forgot or lost her mother and finally found her but still can't reach her! Visualizing Kailash itself brings forth a gush of love and peace in our hearts which cannot be comprehended or experienced by our logical minds. The energy that kailash vibrates with, is meant to be absorbed and understood. Iam looking forward to the end of one journey and the beginning of another, on a trip to my ultimate destination - Kailash!!
I believe a man is a sumtotal of his childhood experiences. As a child we had greater capacity to grasp and an unbelievable level of faith and surrender. What amazes me even more is that it was an effortless quality that all of us possessed as children. I think this is a reflection of our true nature. Our personality combats with a whole lot of testing times that life has in store for each of us and in the process we sew a veil that overshadows our true self. Unfortunately we end up being "childish" instead of just being "child like". Childhood is one time in life where we dodged back to having fun and enjoying ourselves, no matter how huge a problem was. Oblivious are we of our own true nature. I think good childhood days must keep flashing back in our minds to remind us that we are all Purity personified in the true sense!!
Hi! Iam sure the title hints that this is going to start on a philosophical note or rather a spiritual one. Well i suggest read on only if your curious minds take you further. I earlier thought being right is always sticking to principles and ethics. But recently when I was having a discussion with a Swami, he changed or rather purified my theory of what is right and what is wrong. According to him right is something that is done for the benefit of others and then indirectly benefitting yourself, but at the same time the ultimate motive being the other person's wellbeing only. Well and wrong is something where only you benefit and nobody else does. Does it make sense?? Think about it. To make a long story short, being selfless is right and being selfish is ------. Well in that case we are all selfish. A selfless person gains happiness by being selfless. A person therefore cannot be selfless if he is not selfish. But again this kind of selfishness is tinged with unconditional love. When this kind of refining takes place in us, i think a person can guard himself from going Wrong!
Majestic, Magnificient and truly one place I passionately dream of going to. Iam fortunate that i atleast know that such a magical place exists on earth. The first time I heard about Kailash was in 2002 when I happened to play a cd on Kailash yatra by Ramakrishna mission. When i look back today, I had never known or yearned to see this place till somebody gave me the cd to watch. Watching a video of it, itself aroused unexpected overwhelming feelings in me, which happened very naturally. Iam sure this is an experience that everyone goes through. Surprisingly, i got addicted to watching the cd almost everyday. After a month or so some of my very good friends came over to visit me. They gave me a small bottle of water and asked me to have it like theertham. I was taken aback when i learnt that this was the water of the Infinite manasarovar lake near Kailash. For a moment, I was zapped as then "Kailash Manasarovar" had formed an underlying current in my thought process. To top it all, in about a year from then, I found myself watching a presentation on a kailash mansarovar trip, to which we were invited. I stopped to think and realised, it was God himself who put this beautiful desire in me and I made up my mind, I must go to Kailash atleast once in a lifetime. The experience that one gets by just gazing at a picture of Kailash is unimaginable. I've always felt I belong there and I've been thrown far away because of my own doings. Iam like a baby who forgot or lost her mother and finally found her but still can't reach her! Visualizing Kailash itself brings forth a gush of love and peace in our hearts which cannot be comprehended or experienced by our logical minds. The energy that kailash vibrates with, is meant to be absorbed and understood. Iam looking forward to the end of one journey and the beginning of another, on a trip to my ultimate destination - Kailash!!
