improved blessings
nasik
"please do not put milk, sugar, flowers, coins upon the lord. please place milk, sugar, flowers, coins in the baskets. kindly cooperate with the temple trust for improved blessings."
on the road again.
yesterday saw the culmination of my pilgrimage to tryambakeshwar, home to one of the 12 jyotirlingams, this being siva in his death conquering form, mrityunjaya. despite the above HILARIOUS recording being played in the line-up area, this temple visit was nothing short of astounding. this is my 7th jyotirlingam,and i would rank it it in the top three. so peaceful and so powerful. i did enjoy the improved blessings by placing my coins in the basket.
then i discovered that one could also hike from the temple to brahmagiri, the supposed origin point of the sacred godavari river (somehow it is also the ganga... not quite sure what the story is). there i go, alone in the blazing heat up into the hills with nothing but a bamboo stick.
intrepid pilgrim! brave and adventurous soul! why are those people all yelling and laughing at me? o well, ignore them... o i see, it is because i am about to be attacked by a horde of greedy monkeys who patrol the cliff face. right. so in fact i am neither brave or intrepid, but actually arrogant and stupid.
luckily, the overwhelming good nature of indian people conquers the day. i was adopted by two middle aged marathi men who spoke very little english ("monkeys- crazy!" being the main topic of discussion), but who kindly escorted me for the next two and a half hours. it seems that if you equip yourself with bags of channa, half-full water bottles and biscuits that the monkeys are largely appeased. as the man who rented me my beating stick told me afterwards, they only bite people SOMETIMES. not all the time.
good, i guess?
"please do not put milk, sugar, flowers, coins upon the lord. please place milk, sugar, flowers, coins in the baskets. kindly cooperate with the temple trust for improved blessings."
on the road again.
yesterday saw the culmination of my pilgrimage to tryambakeshwar, home to one of the 12 jyotirlingams, this being siva in his death conquering form, mrityunjaya. despite the above HILARIOUS recording being played in the line-up area, this temple visit was nothing short of astounding. this is my 7th jyotirlingam,and i would rank it it in the top three. so peaceful and so powerful. i did enjoy the improved blessings by placing my coins in the basket.
then i discovered that one could also hike from the temple to brahmagiri, the supposed origin point of the sacred godavari river (somehow it is also the ganga... not quite sure what the story is). there i go, alone in the blazing heat up into the hills with nothing but a bamboo stick.
intrepid pilgrim! brave and adventurous soul! why are those people all yelling and laughing at me? o well, ignore them... o i see, it is because i am about to be attacked by a horde of greedy monkeys who patrol the cliff face. right. so in fact i am neither brave or intrepid, but actually arrogant and stupid.
luckily, the overwhelming good nature of indian people conquers the day. i was adopted by two middle aged marathi men who spoke very little english ("monkeys- crazy!" being the main topic of discussion), but who kindly escorted me for the next two and a half hours. it seems that if you equip yourself with bags of channa, half-full water bottles and biscuits that the monkeys are largely appeased. as the man who rented me my beating stick told me afterwards, they only bite people SOMETIMES. not all the time.
good, i guess?
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