
30/01/2024
Holy Mount Kailash predates almost all religious pilgrimages. While Lord Shiva visits Varanasi, his eternal abode is always Kailash, where he dwells with his consort Parvati. For Hindus, Kailash is the physical manifestation of the revered Mount Meru, the center of the world.
In the Bhagvad Geeta, Lord Krishna says, "Among the mountains, I am Meru." As the Merudanda, it is the spinal cord, the axis mundi that holds the world together.
The Vishnu Purana ( approx.. 200 BCE) describes how the world is made up of seven continents ringed by seven oceans - 'The central continent has Meru at its core, bounded by three mountain ranges to the north and three to the south. One of these ranges is the Himalayan barrier, interposed between Meru and 'Bharatha', the Indian subcontinent. Meru itself stands eighty-four thousand leagues high, with four faces of crystal, ruby, gold and lapis lazuli.
Ganga falls from the heavens on Meru's summit, circles the mountain and then divides into four mighty rivers which flow to the four quarters of the earth.'' Today we know that the Kailash Manasarovar region indeed gives rise to four great rivers: Brahmaputra, Indus, Sutlej and Karnali.
It is believed that just a single circuit of the Kailash Mountain brightens the life and wipes out the sins of the lifetime. It emancipates Jivas from the vicious cycle of the births and the deaths consequently entering into the Brahma`s paradise.
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