Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
April also saw us make a visit to Sewri to see the flamingoes....
It is amazing to see the variety of birds that come to this concrete jungle, year after year. The numbers have declined over the years, but at least we still get to see them. It remains to us, however, to decide if we want the birds to keep coming back, for our children to watch with as much enjoyment as we do.
On another note, a lone fisherman with his bag of crabs was even more interesting to Samhith than the flamingoes. After all, the birds were far away, and the crabs were really huge!
You can read the following posts to know more about the birds we saw at Sewri:
It is amazing to see the variety of birds that come to this concrete jungle, year after year. The numbers have declined over the years, but at least we still get to see them. It remains to us, however, to decide if we want the birds to keep coming back, for our children to watch with as much enjoyment as we do.
On another note, a lone fisherman with his bag of crabs was even more interesting to Samhith than the flamingoes. After all, the birds were far away, and the crabs were really huge!
You can read the following posts to know more about the birds we saw at Sewri:
Nice shots!
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I so want to go bird watching... very soon! :)
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