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Himalayan Pilgrimage Travel
The Himalayas in Hindu tradition are much more than a majestic mountain
range that extends in a 2,410-km curve across South Asia. Hindus revere it
not just for being a home to rare sanative herbs, nor even as a haven for
exciting winter sports. To the Hindus this grandfather-like figure has not
just been an abode of ice but an abode of gods. So they referred to the
Himalayas as devatma or God-souled.
From times immemorial, the Himalayas have given out speechless
invitations to sages, anchorites, yogis, artists, philosophers et al. The
western Himalayas teems with esteemed pilgrimages so much so that the
entire Kumayun range can be called Tapobhumi or land of spiritual
practices. Where else apart from Kailash and Manas-sarovar in the
Himalayas could an all-abnegating Shiva roam with his bull? Where else
apart from Hemkunt Sahib in the Himalayas could Guru Govind Singh have
come in his former sagely incarnate for spiritual penance?
Giri-raj or the "King of Mountains", as the Himalayas is often
called, is also a deity by itself in the Hindu pantheon. Hindus view the
Himalayas as supremely sacred, as a corollary to seeing god in every atom
of the universe. The mighty altitude of the Himalayas is a constant
remembrance to the loftiness of the human soul, its vastness. a prototype
for the universality of human consciousness. Here is the few attractions
in the Himalayas below.
MAJOR PILGRIMAGES IN HIMALAYAS
