VDOO Travelogue

Heavy rains! It was pouring when I got down from my Rickshaw at the front of Adiyogi statue! The statue is basically at the other end of the Isha foundation entrance! But trust me just looking at the  Adiyogi , you will start feeling that you are in some different world . This was my fifth visit to Isha and the welcome itself was mind boggling! The heavy rains, darkness everywhere ( It was an Amavasya - 2nd July 2019) and I was lucky enough to arrive at this place on this day! This was my first visit without my family to Isha foundation.! I always believe that if you want to explore the truth of life you have to travel alone, keeping aside all your luxuries and desires, keeping aside all your achievements and gains! Just be a human , simple human and surrender yourself to divine grace. So as it happens I walked through Adiyogi statue in heavy rains and in dark night! Completely wet and then finally entered in the Isha ashram premises! Got to know one of the amazing thing that Dh

    Credit: Isha Foundation  Before arriving in Kashi, I had been doing lot of readings on the scriptures giving detailed information on the oldest cities of the earth. Kashi is an abode of lord Shiva who still resides in the form of Kashi Vishwanath! Its a place where liberation is for sure for the virtuous beings. Many bodies ( I won’t say human , as human has to be a conscious being ) come to Kashi before they die for liberation,  but liberation won’t be possible before you shed your desires and That's the hardest truth..                                          Credit: Isha Foundation I wont get into where all we stayed and what we did! This blog is particularly on the spiritual experiences I gained during our Kashi visit. If you see Kashi is more like a Yantra ( To keep it simple yantra ( machine) can be anything from a   place to device that can be utilized for the betterment of the humankind)  I am using this statement because during my last visit to Lo

It was the day of leaving Siem Reap, the city of Angkor! The plan was to travel to Phnom Penh the capital of Cambodia , 6 hours drive and on the way visiting Sambor Prei Kuk Temples! Frankly, the name didn't excited me much! But when we arrived, it turned out to be one of the archaeological wonders for me!!  Sambor Prei Kuk is an archaeological site in Cambodia located in Kampong Thom Province,30 km  north of Kampong Thom,the provincial capital, 176 km  east of Angkor and 206 km north of Phnom Penh. The now ruined complex dates back to the Pre- Angkorian Chenla Kingdom ( late 6th century), established by king Isanavarman I as central royal sanctuary and capital known then as Isanapura .  In 2017, Sambor Prei Kuk was declared as UNESCO World Heritage site. The whole compound is made of three clusters classified as a group C for central, N for north and S for south. They are enclosed in a double walled encircling 1000 acre in which there were 150 Hindu temples today mos

It was an early morning drive, we stayed in shirdi the day before and decided to visit Sakori first, a small village near shirdi at around 5 km drive. As we all know ' Saibaba's Shirdi has become a tourist destination for travelers, people from all part of the world travel to shirdi to seek baba's blessings. Baba itself was fakir throughout his lifetime and we have made him sit on golden throne, its all baba's leela anyways! Shirdi is no more a town now,its is city in itself with all luxury of the world at the door step. Trust me Baba needs your attention and love, nothing else!! With context to Shirdi, Sakori is still a small village with less people travelling to that blessed place. People coming to shirdi might not even know where sakori is blessed. Upasni Maharaj was disciple of Saibaba who resided at this place for lifetime and did his work for society and masses supporting them in spiritual upliftment. Maharaj was one who gave fire to Baba's body!

Angkor Wat is the largest temple complex creations in Siem Reap city of Cambodia based on Deity Vishnu in the era 12th Century by the king Suryavarman II !! Gradually it was modified into Buddhist temples at the end of 12th century! As per Hindu mythology, out of ten avatars of lord Vishnu, Buddha is the 9th avatar, so if you see in either way, Hinduism and Buddhism are having same roots of origins.It has always been said that Buddhism and Hinduism are two different religions. From my perspective, Hinduism is way of living life since origins. Working towards moksh or moksha is the ultimate goal of any human beings who takes birth and thats what Hinduism and Buddhism strives for. Buddhist way of life is created by Buddha ( Siddhartha) son of Hindu king. I always feel Buddhism is the state of mind while Hinduism is way to live life based on Dharma,Artha,Kama and Moksha!! Indian heritage and culture including Buddhist way of life has always fascinated me as an individual

Visit to Meher Baba, Meherabad!  With divine call , we ( “ We” itself is an illusion 🙏) decided to visit Meher Baba in meherabad near Ahmednagar city , it is 100 kms drive  from shirdi, divine place of shirdi Sai Baba!! Meher Baba was disciple of upasni maharaj of Sakori ( 5 kms from Shirdi)  who was disciple of Master Shirdi Saibaba.We made up our mind to visit this divine place of meherabad post our visit to upasni maharaj and Shirdi Sai Baba! The drive was fantastic, super highways  leading to the city of Ahmednagar , meherabad is city in itself outside of Ahmednagar situated on small hill, open land everywhere. Internal force within guided me to visit meherabad!! Meherabad is situated on a beautiful hill with many places to visit like palace, museum and all, but the focus was to visit samadhi of Meher Baba!! Early afternoon we reached to meherabad, it was hot but somehow at physical level it was not at all exhausting. Eventually , I ( even “ I” here depict e