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
Physically, I may be stuck in Mumbai, but mentally, I am in Goa, remembering the wonderful time we had there.
We stayed at Club Mahindra's Emerald Palms resort, near the Varca beach. Though it meant we had to walk a short distance to reach the beach, the wide expanse with hardly any crowd was worth it!
Walking around, collecting shells, watching the sun set, it was probably the most peaceful evening we have spent in a long time.
What brought back these thoughts was meeting Sudha Ganapathy and listening to her talk about her recent Goa trip.
I have been to Goa thrice, and feel I have barely scratched the surface. There is so much more I want to explore. Wonder when I will next get the opportunity.
For now, I am settling for going through my piles of photos, re-living the memories, and sharing them with you.
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We stayed at Club Mahindra's Emerald Palms resort, near the Varca beach. Though it meant we had to walk a short distance to reach the beach, the wide expanse with hardly any crowd was worth it!
Walking around, collecting shells, watching the sun set, it was probably the most peaceful evening we have spent in a long time.
What brought back these thoughts was meeting Sudha Ganapathy and listening to her talk about her recent Goa trip.
I have been to Goa thrice, and feel I have barely scratched the surface. There is so much more I want to explore. Wonder when I will next get the opportunity.
For now, I am settling for going through my piles of photos, re-living the memories, and sharing them with you.
For more beautiful skies from around the world, visit the Skywatch Page.
I Was Been To Goa But I couldn't Find Such Purity & Cleaning On Beaches Which Is Seen in Your Pictures,Rather I Enjoyed More In Kokan & near By Areas.
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