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
There is one tree in our colony which is the meeting point of the birds. It stands on the edge of our common ground, giving a view of the temple, and a whole square filled with buildings. I have often wondered what it is that draws birds to this tree.... but recently, my thoughts have taken a different direction. I often see groups of birds perched on a particular branch of this tree.....
A couple of weeks back, there were these three Coppersmith barbets....
and then these Red Vented Bulbuls....
Then there were these bulbuls cosying up to each other (this was during the cold wave recently)...
and then a couple of days back, a Coppersmith and a Bulbul, which sat there for almost an hour!
So now I am wondering.... are these bulbuls and coppersmiths becoming friends, hanging out as they are, on the same branch?
Its beautiful Anuradha...Great concept & ofcourse lovely clicks...
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Thanks, Radhika!
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Thanks, Niranjan!
DeleteAnu what beautiful captures. I have now seen a few barbets in the tree in front of my home but no clicks as of now!
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