Pictures of Kailash

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Namaste Anil,

 

Thanks so much for creating an Album in the Photos section of this

Group. Yes, everyone who logs in directly here can access the Photos

section and view your pictures.

 

Speaking of Kailash and especially Picture 3, brings back a lot of

memories. The closest I could get to Kailash when I was 15 and then 18

years old was at Kathmandu, Swayambunath, Kali Temple, a Tibetan Temple

on a hillside where pilgrims prostracted full-length of their bodies up

the hill to the temple and Lake Pokhara where views of Mt. Everest were

beautiful on a clear blue sky day.

 

The buses that went up the steep high hills came across many places

that resemble Picture 3. Wild yak can be seen running down the

hillside where the greener parts were on the down-side. Passengers

were so used to buses running dangerously close to the edges of curvy

roads on high hills that it was considered normal.

 

When I was in Kathmandu, there was the old palace that was abandoned

and overgrown. There was only one Chinese restaurant (Tong Fong) and it

was operated by Hakka Chinese - I was surprised that they lived there

and later learnt that they were from Calcutta and spoke Hindi and

Nepali very well. They later migrated to Canada.

 

Lots of Sikkimese and Tibetans settled in Nepal. They had shops and

other businesses in Kathmandu. Jeans, Coca Cola were on the black

market. European and American hippees or 'flower-children' who loved

ganja and other drugs did not want to return to their home countries.

They sold possessions such as jeans, special shirts, frisbees,

passports, watches and western-style jewelry.

 

It was all old-fashioned, an era now gone. Those wonderful, peaceful

days have disappeared. Now they have discos, nightclubs, boutiques,

etc. etc. How times have changed!

 

At that time, being in Nepal was a spiritual journey in itself because

the atmosphere was just different. Its hard to describe. It was like

almost being on the roof of the world, the towering majestic mountains

with thin mountain air.

 

The Kali Temple was amazing; the Shakti that resonates from it seemed

to spread for miles around. It was the same with the Tibetan temple

which was dark but lit by oil lamps and had incense burning all over.

There was a prayer wheel outside the temple where pilgrims did the

rounds.

 

It was very strange, I wanted to also go to Sikkim and Bhutan but was

refused permits due to my age. I adored the Sikkimese and Bhutanese

national costumes and culture too.

 

Om Om

 

 

, Anil Kumar

<yogi75ank wrote:

>

> Namaste Narasimhaye,

>

> Dhanyavaad for the advice, I have created an Album

> named Kailash under the Photos section and uploaded

> the pictures. Hope members who log in to the group can

> now see the pictures.

>

> Aum GauriShankaray Namah

>