IndiaIn spite of my four months in India, the country and its people kept surprising me, and thereby once more the slogan of Ministry of Tourism came to my mind. “Incredible India” Yes, definitely this country and its people are incredible!!!!
IndiaMayapur is the place where Chaitania Mahaprabhu was born. It is a holy place of pilgrimage for his followers. Based on the Vedic literature of the ancient India he taught how to achieve the highest platform in the spiritual illumination, through the song of the Maha-mantra Hare Krishna.
IndiaBodhgaya is the most important among the four holy cities of Buddhism since it is the place where Siddhartha Gautama reached the Illumination becoming Buddha. Thereby to arrive here was moving.
IndiaPilgrims of the whole country come to Varanasi to take a bath on the Ganges to purify their sins or to pass their last days in the holy city. Thereby I had the sensation that if there is a place in the world which represents how the life and the death are just transitory moments of a same way, it is.
IndiaWhen Clara and I arrived to Matura and we cycled to Vrindavan I understood that we were in one of the most sacred places in the whole India and the world too, because it is believed that 5000 years ago this place was where Krishna was born.
IndiaThe Hinduism is not a religion neither a philosophy but a sum of them, a group of theoretical and religious beliefs, cults, customs and rituals what conform a tradition. The Hindus call to this religious tradition “Sanatana Dharma” what means “eternal religion”.
IndiaMcLeod Ganj is the residence of the XIV Dalai Lama, and thereafter an important centre of Buddhist studies and Tibetan culture. The Tibet museum counts the tragic history of the China occupation and of the consequent exodus of Tibetan people.
IndiaOn the east of the Jammu and Kashmir province is the Ladakh region which is a great plateau over 3000 m. It is located on the western slope of the Himalayas. This region puts up one of the last communities of the Tibetan Buddhism that subsisted to the different colonies, to the violence of the Mongolians and to the cultural revolutions thanks to its strategic geographical position.
IndiaThe design of the Baha’i House from Delhi is inspired in the lotus, the flower of exquisite beauty and symbol of purity associated with the cult and the religion in India. Inaugurated in 1986 it was dedicated to the unit of God, to the unit of the religion and the unit of the mankind.
IndiaWhen I arrived to Amritsar I went to the Golden Temple, where found thousands of faithful. There, Sarain, a man with long beard and a turban on his head came closer to me and in a good english told me about the Sikhism and where I was.
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