Holy Yatra to the Abode of Lord Shiva -14

Stay at Manasarovar 

Early morning darshan of Mt.Kailash

During the night we enjoyed the beauty of Manasarovar on a near full day next day we enjoyed the beauty of both Manasarovar and Mt Kailash  at the time of  sunrise. 

Manasarovar  at  sunrise 

The beauty of Manasarovar changes every minute, one can never fully capture all those moments. We were lucky to witness many of thosw changing faces of the Holy lake as well different views of Mt. Kailash throughout the yatra. 

 The collage of the creator

On this rest day we completed the one of the most important duty of this yatra . We conducted  homams on the shore of Manasarovar as a measure of abundant gratitude.  It is believed only those chosen devotees are allowed to set foot in this  Holy Land. So all the devotees thank Shivasakthi by offering whatever is possible in the  homam fire.

Personal deities of the devotees

Everybody had their second ablution in the Holy Manasarovar Lake and did abisegham to their personal deities which were brought to the yatra and decorated them with bilva leaves  and did pooja to them and sat for the homams.

Another view of Manasarovar

Homam on the shores of Manasarovar 

One group of devotees chanted Rudram and Sama ganam, other group chanted the Holy five syllables OM Namashivaya, another group sang the Tamil Thirumurais and Ganesh Homam, Maha Mrutnjaya Homam, Holy Namashivaya Homam, Durga Homam were conducted. Every devotee brought so much items for the Homam that the homams stretched for about 2 hrs.  

Group singing  Tamil Thirumurai

Group chanting Rudram and Sama Vedam 

The right curved  Holy fire 

The group of Sherpas

The sherpas took care of all of us. they guided us, cooked food, transported  the luggage and were of immense help always.  our sincere gratitude to all of them.

Chiu Gompa on the hillock 

This asphalted road leads to Darchen 

After completing homam we had lunch and left for Darchen the base camp for Kailash Parikrama by bus. 

                                                                               The  Holy yatra continues . . . . . . . . .

Kailash Manasarovar Yatra -2012 - 29

Homam on the banks of Manasarovar

Ablution to Pooja deities

With decoration

Some more Pooja Deities

Preperations for Homam

Mrs Rashmi Mahajan lighting the Homa fire 

 Homam in progress

Poornamadah Poornamidam

Poornaath Poornam Udachyathe

Poornasya Poornamaadaaya

Poornameva Vasisyathe.

Meaning : God is perfect(infinite). This universe is also perfect(infinite). If perfect(infinite) is taken  from perfect(infinite) what remains is still perfect. 

Salutations to Lord after Homam

Ajay Kumar Kaushik the Yajaman of Homam

 Anil Kumar, Kausik, Punitha, Pandey

 Pandey, Gupta, Murugan

Kailash Kaushik worshipping Lord of Kailash with  family 

After the holy bath in  the cleansing waters of Manasarovar,    everybody assembled for the Homam. In the transit the  bag containing the pooja articles  had been misplaced somewhere, so  sherpas managed wood from somewhere and we completed the Ganesh Homam, Durga Homam, Maha Mrutunjaya Homam with all devotion, the Homam was conducted by Ajay Kumar Kaushik. Later we  thanked the Lord and Parvati for their benevolence in allowing us to have their darshan. Though clouds had fully covered Mount Kailash we sighted the Golden duck.  Later we collected  water of Manasarovar  and stones pooja at   home and to distribute to friends. Thus we completed an important ritual that day.

After we reached our Guest house our guide told that some Land Cruiser driver is ready to take us to Darchen for witnessing the Saga Dawa festival for 50 Yuans per head, as everybody was not in a mood to go to Darchen and then come back because of the tough parkrama the next day, only two yatris opted for the same and the driver started demanding 200 Yuans and finally the idea was dropped and everybody took much needed rest to acclimatize the body for high altitude.

In the evening the clouds cleared and we had the wonderful darshan of  Kailash from the shores of Manasarvar also. In the evening we visited the Chiu Gompa located on the cliff of the hillock. The view of Manasarovar from the top was breath taking. As this night was also full moon night we chanted Lalitha sahasranamam again and prayed to Mother Gowri that she cold grant her darshan at Dolma( we should be able to undertake the Parikama) and retired for the day without knowing what is in store the next day.