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Pilgrimage to Kailash &

Manasarovar
In this weeks Spot, Sadhguru continues to describe the rare opportunity of Mount Kailash.
The whole reason why you make a pilgrimage like this is to understand and experience that
there is something beyond what you logically know in this world as real. Kailash is a
phenomenon like no other; its mysticism, its magic, its beauty, above all, in its magnitude,
there is no comparison to this sacred being. I call Kailash a being as it is more present than
you and me.

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PILGRIMAGE TO KAILASH
Manasarovar & Kailash

Right from my childhood, my great-grandmother told me many

wonderful stories about Manasarovar. I thoroughly enjoyed these stories,
but I never believed one word of them. So when I made the first trip to
Manasarovar in 2006, I made it for the sheer adventure of it because
people told me the drive is so fantastic and so arduous. And I love to drive
through this kind of rough terrain where it is 5 percent paved road, 10
percent unpaved road and the rest no roads. It is a drivers dream and
a passengers horror. I did not come to Manasarovar for any spiritual
reasons, but what I witnessed just beat all the logic in my head. I have
encountered many situations one cannot believe, mystical dimensions
stranger than fairytales, but still, I was not prepared for what I saw. Now
I am willing to believe any toothless old grandmothers story because
what is happening there beats all the tall stories you might have heard. It
is just unbelievable, unbelievable.

Though I have been to Manasarovar year after year, it still continues to

intrigue and amaze me in ways that defy articulation. What happens
upon the lake between 2:30 am and 3:45 am is so startling and powerful.
Though I was dead beat after a 19-hour drive through the most
treacherous terrain that you can drive through, and went to bed at about
midnight, I unknowingly sat up at exactly 2:30 am. The dogs in the
region seemed to become very nervous exactly at this time and no one
can miss their anxious barking that continues for hours.

The morning process at Manasarovar was pushed back a few hours A woman should not
because of heavy rainfall. So just after the process was complete and have to fit into a mans
many of the participants were taking their dip in the lake, I jumped back world. Half the world
into the Land Cruiser and headed for Kailash to meet up with another should anyway be hers.
group of trekkers who were already there.

Reaching Shershong later than we should have for the trek to the base of
Mount Kailash, and with a certain amount of time wasted in solving Sadhguru
some logistical bottlenecks, it was already after 3 pm when I started the Todays Mystic Quote

trek. And at over 16,000 feet, have to walk with restraint. I trekked one-
third of the way and had the first glimpse of Kailash. As usual, something
takes over me and from there on its not me just Him. Without a stop, I
go up as if downhill and in just over four hours, I am there.

The whole reason why you make a pilgrimage like this is to understand
and experience that there is something beyond what you logically know
in this world as real. Either you remain within the limitations of your
logic or you taste the magic. The logical will handle the mundane, which
you must take care of. But at the same time, a point should come where
you are willing to leave logic aside and taste the magic of life. Otherwise,
life will remain mundane and nothing beyond it will ever touch you.

Kailash is a phenomenon like no other; its mysticism, its magic, its

beauty, above all, in its magnitude, there is no comparison to this sacred
being. I call Kailash a being as it is more present than you and me.

Battered but Blessed,,

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