Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
Yesterday was Buddha Poornima.. and the full moon looked wonderful! Some welcome clouds kept covering it, and the sight was really beautiful! Unfortunately, as I tried to take some photographs, my batteries gave way - not just one, but every single one..... and I wasn't even able to take one photograph!
However, here is another full moon for you ... this one at Binsar....... it was wonderful night, the stars clearly visible in the complete darkness, and I could just sit there for hours, looking out at the moon shining brightly against the utter blackness of the night....
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Gorgeous picture!!! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely picture Anu.
ReplyDeletewoondrful pic, Anu :)
ReplyDeleteNice pic :)
ReplyDeleteyu have pic for every occassion?!!
ReplyDeleteyu are really a class apart
i love the moon...and especially this photo of yours...with that teeny branch to the side...its beautiful..
and was it romantic?!!
Long ago, a haiku master, I think it was Basho, wondered: Is this the same old orange full moon, every where?
ReplyDeleteLove the branch etched onto that fabulous moon!
ReplyDeleteHello Anu, here we are across the world from one another and yet I took similar photos this early morning. ;)
ReplyDeleteReally pretty!
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thats lovely..I just had a FB post on the moon the other day and then Ive been reading posts and seeing pics of the moon..must be sthg "looney" in the air :)
ReplyDeleteLovely pic. Those leaves adds another dimension to it.
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ReplyDeletejust came here to say hello to you. see you soon
That's a beautiful Moon shot Anu. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThe moon look so elegant
ReplyDeletePretty pretty moon. And its nicer becuase of the silhouette of those leaves on the bottom-right :)
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Very nice pictures
ReplyDeleteCool capture of the full 'O'. It is difficult to get such perfection.
ReplyDelete@Aarti, Mridula, Lavanya, Shilpa: thanks so much, all of you!
ReplyDelete@ssstoryteller: thanks so much, sowmya! i was just too fascinated by the moon that day! as to romance, well, shankar was totally engrossed in IPL which is why i was roaming around taking pics outside!!!
@Michael: thats so true.... my son often asks me why does the moon follow us wherever we go?
@LadyFi: thanks so much! that was one of the things which made me click!
@Di: just saw your pic! and its so awesome! thanks..
@Hood Photo Blog: thanks
@Lakshmi: thanks so much! there surely must be!
@subu: thanks...
@Chitra: thanks..
@T&S: thanks.....i was wishing i had a camera like yours... have promised myself to get one by next year!
@travel tips: thanks...
@Kunal: thanks.....
@A: thanks,
@Indrani: thanks so much!