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
It's been a while since I have posted anything for Skywatch Friday, so here is something from my most recent trip, to Sirpur, in Chhattisgarh. We were walking over the remnants of one of the oldest marketplaces in the world, when the sun began to go down. We had to cut short our exploration of the other ancient monuments of Sirpur, and head back. The light was already failing, and I was ready to put my camera inside... and then I glimpsed this... the sun setting over one of the many temples in Sirpur...
I clicked many shots as the sun moved towards the horizon, but these two are the ones I think are best. What do you think?
Which one do you like more? Once you decide, do leave a comment, and then head over to the Skywatch Page for more beautiful skies from around the world!
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ReplyDeleteLindas fotos!
How very gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ladyfi!
DeleteIndia is on my bucket list. These are very nice photographs.
ReplyDeleteJM, Illinois-U.S.A.
Thank you, JM! I hope you can visit India soon!
DeleteSunset is always such a beautiful time to click, I really like the golden color in your pics. Never been to chattisgarh before but would love to visit it some day soon. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSo great! What a sunset!
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