Muktinath – Guruji Sundar’s trip down the memory lane.
19/September/2009 – Saturday I with my fellow disciples reached Muktinath temple by Jeep. The day we visited Muktinath was a special day in a calendar year. It is Mahalaya Amavasya day. So, the whole temple was overcrowded with pilgrims offering to their ancestor’s srartham. There was a long queue in front of the temple. So, I went to nearby stream and took bath with my team. After everyone had left the temple, I went inside the temple. But I could not pray, the reason behind it was that the whole temple complex is littered with the junk leftovers of all the pilgrims ;who came to do the srartham for their ancestors. Then I applied my mind and acquired broom stick from the temple priest and started cleaning the temple. I t took about 2 hours to clean the temple. In the mean time the monks in the temple offered us tea and asked us to stay for the night. But we had a flight to catch next morning. So we declined the offer. AFter cleaning the whole mess, I once again re-entered the temple. The temple priests started offering many gifts to us. The highlight of the day is that, we were the last ones to leave the temple. On the verge of leaving the temple, the security in charge called me and prsented one Big Saligramam shaped like...