Bhima Shankar Jyotirlinga Trek

This is one of the oldest and ancient temples of Lord Shiva (6 of 12 jyotirlinga) located in mahrashtra near Pune, Maharashtra. The name Bhima is because the river which is originated from Lord Shiva while he was fighting with one of the demon (name Bhima) son of Kumbhkarna staying in the jungle, River Ganga came jumping down from the Jata (Hair) of Lord Shiva and became big river.

It is very holy and gathering place of people in shravan month in (shivratri), this is the place where you can spend with your family and friends and take advantage of Darshana of Lord Shiva.

As we were planning to go via trek, our trek guru (Arvind ji) asked us to be prepare for tomorrow to visit the place. We (me and Rahul Dwivedi) has started our planning decided to move in next early morning at 4.50 from Bhayandar.

We woke up early in morning as our alarm clock Arvind Bhai always is on time. He started himself ready and given us the time slots to be ready in the specific time.  

We took train from Bhayandar at 5.50 and reached at Dadar and again change the next train to central for Neral and we reached at Neral around 7.30.

It was awesome climate we really enjoyed and it was pollution free breathing, we had our tea and little breakfast and again started our journey to khandas base village.

We reached at village and now enquired about way to go from village person, we started from village and came outside the village. And now our actual trek starts, from here approximate 1000 meters from base.

Now we are in forest area only 3 (living things) were there, thanks to god we got our fellow dog who was with us and completed his trek also. (it is there in pics also). We were confused about the way of jungle, then luckily we got on person to help us out till Ganesh Ghat, he dropped us till there. We took darshan of Ganapati Bappa and enjoyed butter milk (chhass) awesome homemade and naturally processed of Kaka Ji. While coming back he also offered us Bhakri and vegetables we realy enjoyed and thanks to kaka ji.

After refreshment, we again started our journey and then after 2 and half our finally we reached at the peak.

Jai BholeNath. 

The Kashi Vishwanath Temple

Shree Kashi Vishwanath is one of 12^th Jyotirlinga and 9^th no. on the western bank of river Ganga.  As the name stand Kashi (old name of the city Varansi). As per the history record varansi  is the oldest city of the world and very much interconnected with Hindu Culture. The Name Kashi – Vishwanath (the lord of universe) Shree Bholenath people used to called the city as “Bhole Nagri”.

People of varansi are very much cultural and much devotee of Lord Shiva.  As it is very much ancient city on earth, there are very large number of temples has existence.

There are major temples of Lord Shiva (Kashi Vishwanath), Lord Hanuman (Sankat Mochan), Maa Durga (Durga Kund), Saint Tulsi Daas (Tulsi Manas Mandir), Sarnath (where Gautam Buddha first taught the Dharma), Maa Sheetla (Sheetla Ghat). The Ganga a sacred place to bath at special occasion like Amawashya, Purnima the holy occasion of the Hindus rituals)               

I was very much impatient to visit the temple since long time, but unfortunately there was no schedule and one saying “If Lord Shiva will call, then only you can meet them”.

This time I decided to visit and luckily my Jiju (Mr. Sunil Chaubey) also supported me to fullfill my wishes. And I started my journey very early morning @8:00 O’clock and by running my bike 50 k.m we reached at River Ganga and took bath over there. After the bath we visited Shree Kashi Vishwanath temple and took darshan, I was very much blessed with Lord Shiva. After Darshan we decided to visit the place Maa Durga Temple (Durga kund) it’s very much ancient story of king where Maa Durga helps him and stayed forever. The next we decided to visit the most famous and ancient Hanuman Ji temple (Shree Sankat Mochan) and Shree Tulsi Manas Mandir where Saint Tulsi Das Ji wrote his very much famous and ancient epic “Shree Ram Charit Manas”.

I was not even aware of there is one more temple of Shree Lord Siva (the new Kashi Vishwanath Temple) at campus of BHU (Banaras Hindu University) the one of oldest university.

We enjoyed very much and even we were no ready to leave the holy place. I hope people should visit the place once in the life.

May Lord Shiva give you prosperous and healthy life…

Here are some pics which I am sharing with you, I hope you will like it..

Jai Shree Kashi Vishwanath  

The Mahakaleshwar and Omkareshwar Darshan

One of the 12 Jyotirlingas in India, the lingam at the Mahakaleshwar (Third Jyotirlinga) is believed to be Swayambhu (born of itself) deriving currents of power Shakti) from within itself as against the other images and lingams which are ritually established and invested with mantra-shakti. There are many more ancient stories based on The Mahakaal. It is located in the holy city Ujjain located in M.P (Madhya Pradesh) state. In the ancient story Lord Krishna was also having desire to visit that holy place. The he visited with his Guru (Muni Sandipani). There is Ashram called Sandipani Muni Ashram, the place where Lord Krishna and his beloved friend Sudama got his childhood education. That is very much holy and auspicious place we visited over here. We started our journey from Avantika Express; from night, Avantika is also one of the ancient name of Ujjain. We reached at Ujjain at morning and took some rest and then went for Shree Mahakaal Darshan. Awesome Shrine, really I was amazed to visit the temple and location over there. There was really something magnetic power which was attracting us to stay some more day but we were having lack of time. We visited the place called Mangal Grah Temple, Bhairao Nath temple and so many places. We took our food at night around 9 O’Clock and our journey continues to the next Omkareshwar and Mamleshwar Temple(Fourth Jyotirlinga). We reached at Ujjain Station and again our train was from Ujjain to Omkareshwar). We reached in very early morning and took some hot tea (as there was cold as we were not expected), then we started our journey with the people who also were coming to the same place. We reached at Omkareshwar, there is mountain called (Omkar Parwat), As per the ritual we should first go around and then take the Darshan. We started our journey for Omkareshwar Parwat Parikrama. It took around 3 hours to reach us at the Omkareshwa Temple. But our journey was so interesting and happy because we saw so many places within that and Old temples (Big Hanuman Ji, Old Shiva Linga) and the best was all over around there was Shirmad Bhagwad Gita wriiten on stone, so while moving you can also enjoy the Gita also. We reached at temple and took the Darshan and again we crossed the river by boat and come to the place (Mamleshwaram) as both are considered as a same Linga. It was very much enjoyable and memorial Trip with Arvind Ji, who managed things in very short but memorable and thanks to Mr. Deepak Kushwaha (Deepu) to manage us to stay there at Ashram (Chardham). Really we will never forget this memorable journey in our life.

“Akaal Mrityua se wo mare jo kaam kare Chandaal ka, Kaal bhi uska kya kare jo bhakt ho Mahakaal ka”

Jai Mahakaal