VDOO Travelogue

  Om Sai!! With bottom of my heart, I dedicate this blog to my guru "  Shri Sai Baba" , let his love grace all of us and gives us strength to ride through this adventure called " life" It was raining heavily that day!! Visit to ananda retreat,mulshi,pune was preplanned. Post my outing at lonavala (one of the hill stations near mumbai), I started my drive in those heavy rains, it was not easy though..it was approximately around 2 hours drive, needed to cover 85 kms on stretch. I reached pune mid way and then onwards the drive was through small villages, hills, muddy roads and only single lanes, I always love those small villages and down to the earth villagers around, most of the villagers of them are far away from the "life" we live in cities which I feel is highly illusionary and complex.. So as I was reaching towards my defined destination, the route was becoming more denser and narrower, but on other side it was a treasure drive for me, the beautiful v...

 In this blog, I am going to take you through  Koneswaram Kovil ( Temple),Trincomalee , Srilanka !!  It lies in the eastern province of Srilanka ; one of the most important Hindu pilgrimage  and it is also part of "panch ishwaram" formed by king Raavana which was later on developed and maintained by Cholas,Pallavas,Pandyan and Dravidians. Many anecdotes and stories are associated with this mystic town, it is said that Rishi Patanjali ( who put forwarded Patanjali yog sutras) and Agatsya munni ( one of the saptarishi who got attainment from lord shiva himself) stated that Sun Salutation ( Surya Namaskar) in Yog sutras was originated in Trincomalee, isnt it the biggest gift to mankind? ...  I will not go in the depth of information and the history of this temple , history is always good to know, but what matters is  your experience in this subtle body and this always comes from your present, history is more about visualization, present is what we have in our...