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
It's been a while since I have posted here, for various reasons, and what better way to break this silence than this beautiful scene from our trip to Shirdi last week?
The tree, the sun, the clouds, and the play of light, as the sun hid behind the clouds... they all make for a wonderful sight, do they not?
Which makes this post perfect for Skywatch Friday! For more beautiful skies from around the world, visit the Skywatch Page!
The tree, the sun, the clouds, and the play of light, as the sun hid behind the clouds... they all make for a wonderful sight, do they not?
Which makes this post perfect for Skywatch Friday! For more beautiful skies from around the world, visit the Skywatch Page!
It is a wonderful sight indeed...
ReplyDeleteNature is a relentless artist and poet, according me...
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Locomente! You have put it so beautifully... Nature indeed is a relentless artist and poet :-)
DeleteBeautiful photos, well done!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Hans!
DeleteLove those rays and that lone tree.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lady fi!
DeleteThe last one is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Gale. I loved that one too :-)
DeleteGorgeous sky shots!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stephanie :-)
DeleteHi Anuradha
ReplyDeleteI'd say the solo photo of a lone tree is what makes this image such a powerful one... A plain sky would have looked bland. Very creatively captured
Thank you, Ritesh. I totally agree with you. The tree is the hero of the pic :-)
DeleteThank you, Niranjan :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mina !
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