#AumKedarNamashivayaPanchkedar

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Himalaye Tu Kedaram

Walk, crawl hike - no matter what ? the feeling of ' In the lap of the Master ' is inevitable!

'Himalayas & Ganges' are my Great Great Grandfather~mother alike. Life can take us anywhere but if it takes to the Himalayas nothing like it but before that board flight to Delhi 😊

The great Bharat Capitol is known for its perseverance and Phoenix type attitude  the city being massacred by many Invaders yet holds the cultural endurance and yet cheapest and busiest metro amongst the rest of 4, Not that easy to commute across the city coordinates Thanks to Delhi Metro rail system -Finding platform across colors is still challenging for me, however, I could sigh a relief boarding Jansatapthi to the Rishi 's land !

Oven ride to lower plain Himalayas is eternal after a dip in 'har ki Pauri 'by night  Here is where the Amruth pot spilled a drop and the ideal place to collect Ganges water for purity 

 'Raw omnipresent 'Ro treated dip in the Ganges is a clean act 

Haridwar always welcomes me as an old school always nostalgic Of course, I feel similar feel in few other places ( Banaras, Nashik... Overnight Nap is really essential, before a bit of a start to Sonaprayag the base camp where are the crawl and hums starts 8-hour long Hartal Hunger-strike bus ride can't be explained over mere expressions 

the Himalayas is an unusual mountain range, for a hiker it might amuse by its mightiness and diversified flora and fauna, but for me even a small hillock of Himalayas articulates larger than life mightiness he is like my great -great father embraces me but yes he is mystic and has answers for all the questions ever arose and the ones which are yet too Cloud kissing ranges passing the Ganges ...flowing from the peaks with flow and shine

 Some time blueish, rest of the time mesmerizes the thought and life just by the mere smell and sight of her ...

Though there are multiple prayags enroute Devprayag and rudra- prayag are my favorite s The former is where Ganges takes it course with mix of Mandakini and blue lagoon river stream Latter is where Agasthya Muni stayed for few hundred years and held his spiritual practise ( Sadhana) and there still reverberates an ashram 

Gmou is the motor association operating limited timing service from haridwar to sonprayag and else where too these Hartal  bus service travels across and over Himalayas without even a chai break yet we could have a bite of icebars while we had to stand long traffic congestion yet that memory travels high amongst the mountains It was only late in the night we could reach Sonpryag the base camp to kedarnath 

Shower fed rainfall with lush high mountains lodged us the very night Early start stand the queue to authorize a pass to kedarnath ( one should need a valid original id address proof )aadhar is preferable Walk to the bridge taxi takes us to the the fag end of motorable road near gaurikund Three way to reach the kedarnath temple a ) chopper service available from multiple cities around Uttarakhand like ( dehradun,gaurikund,guptkasi,uttarkasi ) operates at a fair price b) Take a mule ride or a hand life palak service (dolly) preferred for elderly and children C) Take a walk  usually takes about 8 hours or even more

Where do I start! 

Let me start from Pandavas! After committing war crime with the supervision of Shri Krishna, to overcome the guilt the five brothers chose to Seek Maheshvara darshan to peel of the karma!

Shiva disguised and gave a tough time to provide a sight to the Pandava kings Mythology believes that they entered the plains of lower Himalayas reached place called Haridwar - Gateway to Shiva and then climbed Rishikesh and wandered around crossing ganges on the banks of its tribunal mandageni river and finally Beem is able to locate shiva @ a strategic important place called Gupta Kashi - its referred as Mystic Kasi where Shiva is an available to any seeker additional information is the linga is consecrated by Agasthya muni - South sage :) 

Let me come back to him on return trip, then they climb greater Himalayas and 'beema' smashed disguised shiva and that fell across different parts of now uttarkhand 

referred as Panch- kedar  Parts of Shiva's Human body ( Hair,Torso,Head)

* Kedarnath

* Tungnath

*Rudranth

*Madhyamaheswar

*Kalpeshwar 

I was blessed to be grace in Kedarnath and Tungnath of the panch kedars 

The way upwards to Kedarnath is truly heaven in disguise there are many junction hops the trek could be termed as Medium trek till 7 km and then it takes a bit test for virgility 

First 3 kilo meters embraces rudra falls , Bairava temple and beembali and the next 3 km walk up hill will get the first sigh of snow and also the split takes to Serious uphill hike from Rambara the old trek place after the 2013 wash away remains could be witnessed 

another equidistance walks uphill the roads turns total uphill and zigzag upwards and yet classy on the way up  Jai Bolo Kedar Baba ...

I firmly believe only the calling can get us there no matter what ! devotion is the key to eternal opening 

As Buddha often refers than the actual attainment of enlightenment the path toward to it is more reverberating so as this travel

Cloud kissing mountains, Snow capped mountains Rudra’s presence and more than all the humility of being felt so small Infront of the Himalayas yet pampered by the sight of the free flowing Motherhood!

I leave it for personal experience 

Arrival and Arti 

we just arrived before Aarti with its magnificence energy awakening mantras night well spent 

with great hospitality by the Punjabi brother sangh 

well pampered quilt and yet sprout rich roti and veggies is just perfect for retiring the night wondering the ambiance of the eternal place

Mornings are usually as early as 430 am bright and light and temple starts reverberating time to take a daylight look @ Kedar darshan 

One should see for themselves a Simple monolithic rock fell flushed by the mighty flood split the water streams yes the flood didn't reach the temple one can call it as 'coincidence or maybe fate there is only a fine line to it '

Triangular irregularly spawned  ellipsoid linga is what the whole cosmos is longing for is just in front of me 

I still could feel the thoughtlessness around the campus!

Big salute to Adhi Sankaracharya’s revamp of Spiritual process here  and he stays here omniprescent and i firmly belive he had left his soul around here and lives in samadhi 

Kanti saravor not far away from the temple is where the first KT happened between Shiva and the seven Sages 

Encountering yogi! - conversation with a nomad is nothing like less than unfolding karma knots yes I loosened few knots and i shall leave it to myself ! as I might sound hallucinatory :)

Before the downstream climbed a Hillock and reached for Bairav darshan 

serene moments there are still replenishing with a heavy heart made a move downhill yet carrying photographic frame by heart ...