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 no better time to explore the Western Ghats than
the monsoon, but we rarely get to go anywhere in the rains, thanks to the
school schedule. This year, however, we struck lucky, with the school changing
its term breaks, and giving us some bonus holidays in August! Which is why, you
haven’t seen me online the last couple of weeks. Where did I go? Can you guess
from this pic?
Yes folks, this is Jog Falls in Karnataka, a place which has
been on top of my wish list for a long, long time!!!
With the recent happenings in our family, Shankar wasn’t able
to join us, so I first thought of heading out alone, with just Samhith in tow. Then,
on an impulse, I decided to drag my mother along, so, for those of you who haven’t
met her yet, here she is, along with Samhith, whom most of you know well by
now!
The main idea of going on this trip was to give Samhith and
me a much needed break, since we aren’t really sure how much we will be able to
travel this year, and it surely did that. As you can see from these pics,
Samhith did have a wonderful time…
Whether it was playing on the Om beach at Gokarna…
Or making sand castles….
Travelling by passenger trains…
Or picking shells on the Varca beach at Goa…
Or soaking in the spirit of Goa….
And these were just a few of the many things we saw and
did!!
This was one much needed vacation for us, and we enjoyed it
to the hilt. It is now time for me to re-live all that enjoyment, sharing all
of it, with all of you! So stay tuned and keep coming back! There is loads
coming up, soon!!!!
Quite a lot of places covered... and he's turning out to be a good poser :)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a good holiday. Waiting to hear more. And the water fall pics are so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWow! What a lovely place! I want to visit it too!
ReplyDeleteThe first photo is awesome.
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