Footloose In Himalayas

Everyone I come across, in cages they bought

They think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought

I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts

I'm alive...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be

Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting

I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me

Guaranteed

- Eddie Vedder

Wandering gives a floating effect in my soul, failing in lust, sweet and airly warm. I'm being carried up and down on ebbs and tides. Every time I come back to home with an unfulfilled heart, a black hole and queer melancholy. I miss many things, mostly the space I am searching for, it's for a brief time, just like taste my panacea sweetmeat but never really relish it fully.

Anyways, the therapeutic effect of travel is indeed incredible. Every time mountains teach me lessons, which I never learn in midst of claustrophobic environ. So many different people, so many thoughts, such purity in rivers, sky touching lonely mountains and above all the indispensable faith. How it is possible for thousands of years the same landscape presents the similar nostrum effect in the minds of people.

When a person is moved by a deep trauma, or be suddenly brutally curious to know the deeper aspects of life covered by layers and layers. He feels forced to go on this sort of quest, and it's better to let it be. Sometimes, footloose along with an unknown path, subjecting ourselves to risk opens a channel. More often the deepest corridors of our hearts there is a hidden uncommunicative space where we refuse anyone to enter. It's a space where love hurts, the same space where apparently there is no cure. Of course. Refuse to love, refuse to stop caring will never avoid those shodden tears, vicious pain. Here comes the faith to rescue us from every pain we receives.

We all get this opportunity to revolutionize our miserable life, though most often we don't because we are conditioned to a morbid life of security and conformity. Above all we are chained to pain of relationships where we refuse to see the antithetic horizons and strangle some fabulous experiences. We don't give our minds to expand, to grow, to realize anything. We try to understand everything by our own conservative mentality.

Someone says a beautiful thing that lately I've realized in my life. He says we are wrong if we think happiness emanates principally from human relationships. God placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. Whenever I travel, I meet new people, venture into unknown territory, accustom to new environment, I'm surely learning, see the subtle beauty, much larger than any creature in this world. It's a profound effect that's inexpressible.

Mighty Ganges - From time immemorial the river is a source of faith, life and soul of millions of people

Half naked monk at the beach - I wanted to ask him why he was so serious

The deepest wood I've ever seen. This was shot in a broad daylight,but not so light really penetrated through these woods.

Perched at the height of 3800 meters, Tungnath temple is believed to be the highest temple in the world. It's one of the Panch Kedars, but a little desolate.

Himalayas always cast a magical spell on me. These mountains make my mind absolute still

Chandrasheela is perched at 4100 M. This peak presents a spectacular view of Himalayas,especially Nandadevi, Trisul, Kedar Peak, Bandarpunch and Chaukhamba peaks.

German Bakery in Rishikesh - My favorite hangout place

Laksham Jhula in Rishikesh - Iron suspension bridge from where one can have spectacular views of Ganges.

Spent my night with him. The best part of my journey so far. He was an agricultural engineer from Rajasthan, now a wandering monk, even without a footwear.

 

 

Rough Day at Deoritaal.  The legend is that the Devas bathed in this lake hence the name, the lake is also sometimes believed to be the "Indra Sarovar" referred to in the Puranas by wandering, Hindu mendicants. It is also believed that it was the place from where the mighty Pandavas were asked queries by Yaksha.