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
Another weekend comes, and once again, I am stuck at home... So, for Skywatch this week, is a pic of where I would love to be....
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This is somewhere in Jammu and the river winding its way amidst the mountains is either the Chenab or the Beas (don't remember which one). it was almost dry, but it was no less interesting. Samhith and I wished we could get down, and go to the river bed.. and yes, come back with some stones!!! Yes, I really wish I was there right now! Sigh!
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Even I am at home I have not gone out for the entire month now :( Lovely pictures Anu I might travel to Kashmir sometime this year myself!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mridula... but u did go to Alwar, didnt you? or was that last month? and wow!!! that will make this one great year then!!! annapurna as well as kashmir?
DeleteVery beautiful photos for SWF!Thank you for it and have a nice weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Steffi! have a great weekend too!
DeleteLovely photos. Nothing can be more frustrating than sitting at home without travel.
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Thanks Niranjan!!!! unfortunately, the bulk of the year is spent at home,without travel!
DeleteNice pictures...I really wish to be at such a place, soon!
ReplyDeleteThanks Renuka!
DeleteI too am itching to travel.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot!
Thanks Indrani!!! wish we could just set off somewhere!
Deleteit is better to have dreams then not. :) Someday you will be back. :) It is a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, Nature Footstep!! its our dreams that take us places!!
DeleteThat was a wowiee!!! I sooo wanna go to this place
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I hope you can go here some day!
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