Beautiful thing to be regarded as sacred just these mountains are far away from Indian and were not known by them.
Beautiful thing to be regarded as sacred just these mountains are far away from Indian and were not known by them.
matt thanks for the image....
here is something about kailash,,,,,,,,,
kailash mountain is considered as spiritual library of the universe, whatever you want to know about this universe and beyond all is stored in energy form, you need certain perception and mastery over yourself to perceive this......... its said by so many past masters from buddhism , indian yogic tradition, tibatian culture......
i am attaching some images and things about kailash and manasarovar.... every year our organisation arranging pilgrimage to this place,
About Kailash Manasarovar
“The idea of a going on a trek or a mountaineering feat is always toward a sense of achievement, to make yourself bigger than who you are. But the idea of a pilgrimage is to subdue yourself.”
- Sadhguru
An imposing 21,778-feet tall, the magnificent and majestic Mount Kailash is more than just a mountain. It’s a legend. A revelation. An epiphany. A journey, that is both outwards and inwards. Located in the Himalayan mountain ranges of the remote Southwestern corner of Tibet, Kailash is not just one of the highest parts of the world and the source of four mighty rivers of Asia — the Brahmaputra, the Sutlej, Ganges and the Indus — but it’s also one of the most significant spiritual spots in the world, revered by millions of people from different religions across the world.
But more than anything, the journey to Kailash Mansarovar is a life-changing experience for the few thousands of pilgrims who undertake it every year, teaching them a sense of self like nothing else can. For a pilgrimage to this isolated, timeless, breathtaking and fascinating spiritual spot is like a journey within yourself.
Kailash Sacred Walks, a program by Isha Sacred Walks, offers you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of embarking on this journey to Kailash Manasarovar. All our fellow travelers will unanimously agree that they all returned from this trip completely transformed. The magical and mystical spot has been drawing people to its divine presence for various reasons. Here’s why you should not miss the chance to be a part of the Kailash Manasarovar yatra.
- The Kailash Parvat or Mount Kailash along with the holy Manasarovar lake is deeply integral to the heart of spiritual Asia, capturing the imagination of human beings since time immemorial.
- According to Hindu legend, the lake was first created in the mind of the Lord Brahma. Hence, in Sanskrit it is called Manasarovar, which is a combination of the words ‘Manas’ (mind) and ‘Sarovar’ (lake).
- Hindus also believe Mt. Kailash to be the abode of Lord Shiva, the holy centre of the earth and the manifestation of heaven itself.
- Tibetan Buddhists profess that Kailash is the home of the Buddha Demchok who symbolizes supreme harmony.
- The Tibetan religion of ‘Bon’ believes Mount Kailash as their spiritual seat of power.
- In Jainism, Kailash, referred to as Mount Ashtapada, is the place where the creator of their faith, Rishabhadeva, attained freedom from the cycle of life and rebirth.
- Just 20 kilometers away from Mount Kailash, the sacred blue and emerald green Manasarovar lake that lies at a height of 15,015 ft, is known to be an epitome of purity, containing healing properties and the power to wash off all mortal sins.
For these reasons and more, a trip to Kailash Manasarovar is an intense spiritual experience, complete with the inclusion of meditation sessions, sathsangs ( spiritual discourses) and much more. The 13-day trip will commence at Kathmandu, where you will explore the ancient city along with its holy spots and includes the journey to Tibet, drive to Saga, overnight camping and meditation sessions at the breathtaking Manasarovar Lake. This will be followed by the challenging yet fulfilling trek to the North face of Kailash, where you will get a chance to meditate in the presence of the mighty peak before you journey back.
A sojourn to this roof of the world is an arduous, but rewarding one. Every single traveler of this incredible journey undergoes a humbling and enlightening transformation, which cannot be described, but can only be felt first hand.
Get ready for some incredible experiences. Soak in the sights of cliff-top monasteries, yak caravans leisurely ambling over snowy passes, and the mighty peaks of the Himalayas. But most importantly, get ready to have an honest peek into your own self. As Sadhguru says, you return home with “a little bit of Kailash with you in your heart and your mind”.
With our team of highly skilled, trained and dedicated teachers and volunteers ever ready to help you with every step you take on this memorable journey, you will be enveloped in a sense of endless energy, tranquility and oneness.
This year, five groups will embark on the Kailash Manasarovar Sacred Walk between August 8th to August 26th.
Come be a part of this beautiful and enlightening journey with us.
“If you can really be with Kailash even for a few moments, life will never again be the same for you. It is a phenomenon beyond all human imagination.”
- Sadhguru
Mount Kailash – The Abode of Shiva
Sadhguru: My experience and understanding of Kailash is something that I can never articulate. For me it’s so big that I am willing to die for it. That’s all I can say. When the first Jain Thirthankar came here to Mount Kailash, his name was Rishabdev, he came here with a mission. He had heard much about it. So he thought he will grab all this knowledge and go out and do something with it. He was a being who was open and receptive to the whole process. After being touched by Kailash, instead of taking the knowledge and going and doing something, he decided to merge with the mountain. He became a part of it. No being who has tasted it to some depth will be spared that temptation. When you are in touch with it, you begin to think, “This is it, why not?” Everything else – all the petty goals that we have set for ourselves to do this and that – become meaningless. This is not a death wish. When the opportunity to become immortal is thrown at you, there is temptation. When the possibility of becoming a part of such a grand affair is opened, it becomes a temptation hard to resist.
Mount Kailash is a tremendous spiritual library. The Buddhists consider Kailash as the axis of the existence. In the whole area from the Far-east Asian countries to the Indian sub-continent to the Central-Asian countries, and even in spaces as far as the Middle East, Kailash has been held as a very sacred space for centuries. That awareness has dropped in the last one or two centuries because there is no active culture to keep it up, but even today there are small groups of people who are very much aware of this.
Starting from Shiva himself, many great beings chose to deposit and preserve their work in Kailash. Rishabadev, the saints of the Bon religion, two of the greatest Buddhist teachers, Agastyamuni, the Nayanmars, – all of them chose Kailash Parvat.
In the Hindu way of life, people say Kailash is the Abode of Shiva. In the yogic culture we do not see Shiva as a God. We see him as a man who was the first yogi or the Adiyogi. And he was the Adi Guru or the first guru. He was the first one to transmit the yogic science to his first seven disciples, who came to be known as the Saptarishis. Shiva is the greatest mystic that we have known. So when we say “Abode of Shiva,” it does not mean that if you dig in the rocks or look up in the clouds somewhere you will find him. It is because everything that he knew has been deposited in Mount Kailash in a certain energy form. He chose this peak as a scaffolding for his knowing. The knowledge and the capability that Shiva was, all that is very alive and accessible at Kailash.
So, starting from Shiva himself, many great beings chose to deposit and preserve their work in Kailash. Rishabadev, the saints of the Bon religion, two of the greatest Buddhist teachers, Agastyamuni, the Nayanmars, – all of them chose
Kailash Parvat as a place to preserve their work. Unfortunately, for most mystics on the planet, if they get to share one or two percent of their work with people around them, they are very fortunate. Most of them don’t even get to do that. So they always chose to deposit their work in some space that is not too frequented by human beings, but at the same time it’s accessible for those who wish to go. Kailash is such a place. It is not totally inaccessible but it’s hard enough to discourage a lot of people. There are many places like this in India.
There have been many places where mystics deposited their work, but Kailash has been
the place.
Unfortunately, preparing people to receive what is known by a certain opening up of your own perception, doesn’t happen frequently enough. Whatever work you do with people around you constantly gets limited because of social restrictions to start with, and then by individual problems that people have – psychological and physiological limitations and karmic bondages. It is rare to be able to prepare one or two people who will be able to receive everything that you know. Very few masters have ever been that fortunate. The rest have to work around people and around the social norms and limitations. So, not even a small percentage of what they know gets actually transmitted or shared. They find rocks very receptive. There have been many places where mystics deposited their work, but Kailash has been
the place. In terms of the volume and the variety that has been deposited in Kailash, it is
the place.
The very idea behind a pilgrimage is fundamentally to subdue the sense of who you are. The idea of a trek or a mountaineering feat is always towards a sense of achievement to make yourself bigger than who you are, but the idea of a pilgrimage is to subdue yourself. It is to become nothing in the process of just walking and climbing and subjecting yourself to various arduous processes of nature. So these places of pilgrimage in the ancient past were always located in such places where a person has to go through a certain amount of physical, mental, and every kind of hardship to get there, so that in the process he becomes less than who he thinks he is right now. Today things have been made much comfortable. We are flying up and then driving down and just walking a little bit…
The fundamental idea of pilgrimage becomes much more relevant to modern societies than it was to the ancient ones. This pilgrimage in terms of the destination, probably is the greatest that one can make.
Physically we are much weaker human beings than what we used to be a thousand years ago. It is not an evolutionary thing. It is something social which has happened to us because somewhere we do not know how to make use of the comforts and conveniences that man’s ingenuity has brought into our lives. We have not used the comforts and conveniences of human ingenuity in the direction of our wellbeing. We have used it to make ourselves weaker, more difficult with ourselves and with the surroundings in which we exist. The planet or what the planet has to offer to us is becoming more difficult to human beings simply because of the comforts and conveniences that have been offered. So the fundamental idea of pilgrimage becomes much more relevant to modern societies than it was to the ancient ones. This pilgrimage in terms of the destination, probably is the greatest that one can make.
Sadhguru about Manasarovar
Right from my childhood, I have heard many stories about how yakshas, ganas and devas came from somewhere else and took away this princess, got married to that person, this happened, that happened – all kinds of stories. I enjoy them, I appreciate them, but believing them is not in me. I never believed a word of it, but I gathered a rich accumulation of stories within me from various sources because I like the nature of the stories. I like the imagination behind them. But when I went to Manasarovar, for the first time I saw things happening there that I never ever believed possible. Slowly, I’m beginning to wonder if all these stories could actually be true. It makes me feel a little silly because I have built a reputation around the world of a
straight-talking guru – absolutely logical, nobody can find a hole in my logic. But now, if I talk about what I’m seeing, particularly in Manasarovar, I’m staking my reputation. And it will make me look like a silly UFO freak…
In many ways, this place has been the very fulcrum of the spiritual process. The esoteric and mystical sciences have evolved from this in many different ways.
There have been any number of references in the Sanskrit scriptures of India about beings from beyond visiting here, transacting with the local population and various things. I have always dismissed them as exaggerated imagination. Indians are good storytellers. We have the greatest stories on the planet. There isn’t any other story like
Mahabharat – such an elaborate story, a story inside a story inside a story inside a story inside a story… and a story. So I appreciated it as our storytelling talent, not as any kind of reality. I never considered that this could actually be a reality. But when you look around in the world, everywhere, there have been similar stories. All of them could not have invented the same type of stories unless something really happened. The Bible distinctly talks about similar stories, and particularly the Greek culture talks about very similar stories, very similar sounding names… Right from the Rig Vedic times, we have been talking about star riders or people who came from the stars, or a starship. Another very common talk in the Sanskrit scriptures is about sky people, or sky travelers – their contribution to local societies, how they visited this planet – so many stories. Similar words and similar stories are there in the Sumerian culture, and also in certain cultures of Arabia and northern parts of Africa. Very similar stories are also there in South America. What stories they had in North America, we do not know because those cultures were completely erased. They carry similar stories in their culture with similar words. I have heard many stories like that but I thought it is excessive imagination of the human mind.
There is a whole lot of traffic of these beings happening at Manasarovar. Particularly early morning between 02:30 and 03:45, there is brisk activity. Like clockwork, it starts at that time and exactly at 03:45, it stops.
Manasarovar is a remnant of the Tethys Sea. What was an ocean is now at 14,900 feet elevation. The water has turned sweet after these hundreds of thousands of years, but still it retains the characteristics of an ocean in terms of what is found there. Above all, there is a whole lot of transaction of another kind of life… It has been many years now that we have been going there – it is compulsively drawing me back. Unfortunately, my stays there have been very, very brief, and it has always been with a large group of people who are too distracted by their own discomforts and problems – cold, lack of oxygen in the air, all these things. But whatever little attention we have paid to it has yielded in many different ways.
As I have been repeatedly saying,
I’m not spiritually educated, I don’t know any scriptures, I don’t know any teachings. All that I know is this piece of life [pointing to himself] absolutely, from its origin to its ultimate nature. Having known this piece of life, by inference you know every other life the way it is.
What we see in Manasarovar is life, but not the way we know life. The basic parameters of life the way we know it is, they are either individual or when they unite, they lose their individuality. That is the basis of our spiritual process also. And life here is either conscious or not conscious. But what I see at Manasarovar defies these parameters. It is individual, at the same time merged together. It seems to be unconscious and moving by tendencies, but it is very conscious. This time particularly, I’m 100% clear – they are very, very conscious, far more conscious than most human beings are, but at the same time they let themselves go about as if by automation. It is very difficult to explain anything about them since we don’t have the language to articulate this because it defies all the fundamentals of logic.
There is a whole lot of traffic of these beings happening at Manasarovar. Particularly early morning between 02:30 and 03:45, there is brisk activity. Like clockwork, it starts at that time and exactly at 03:45, it stops. Always, in the yogic systems we have been told, 03:40 to 03:45 is the Brahma Muhurtham, that is the time to wake up. Many of our brahmacharis in the
ashram wake up at that time to do their sadhana. Ever since I was a little over 15 years of age, no matter where I am, which part of the world I am in, what time zone I am in, at 03:45 in the morning, I’m awake at least for a few minutes. Sometimes I get up, sometimes I sleep after that, but at 03:45 I always wake up. I have never been able to explain to myself why this is so. And exactly at 03:45 the activity closes at Manasarovar, as if it is timed. We have still not figured out everything about it, but so much more is clear now than it was two years ago.
Essentially, every description about Shiva indicates that he did not belong to this planet. In fact, in the Shiva sutras, he is being referred to as yaksha-swaroopi. That means he is not from here.
Particularly this time, Manasarovar yielded to me in a different way and revealed another dimension of itself. Now it might have become just a belief system or a ritual, but in many cultures, for thousands of years this has been a live process that some spiritual orders traveled to parts of the Himalayas and Tibet to meet certain beings who have always been there, guiding them. The Indian yogis have always done it. The Buddhists have also picked this up and go to certain parts of the Himalayas where they meet their Masters of the past. The other esoteric groups from Central Asian countries have done this for ages. And the Druze of the Middle East, who have always believed that their Masters came from the Himalayas, they also continue to make these trips.
Beneath the lake, there is a space where something beyond what we can logically imagine is happening, and this process is yet to be deciphered. It is a huge cavity with various kinds of life processes happening there…
In many ways, this place has been the very fulcrum of the spiritual process. The esoteric and mystical sciences have evolved from this in many different ways. The demographics have changed in the last 800 to 900 years, but essentially India was a nation whose basic God was Shiva, always. As everyone knows, there are thousands of temples for Shiva and many more stories about him, but not a single story about his childhood. He has no parentage. He was not born to anybody here – that is an established fact in our culture. He came from elsewhere. And we know that his friends, the ganas who were around him, were always described as goblins and demons, distorted and demented beings. He was always in the company of that kind of life which did not look human. Humans worshiped him, but his immediate company was never human. And there is no old age, there is no grave. And repeatedly, there are stories that no woman could bear a child for him. Neither Sati nor Parvathi had any children from him. The two children of his were produced out of their tantric bodies. You know how Ganesha was created from the sandal paste, and how Subramanya or Murugan or Skanda – as we call him by different names – was born in six different wombs by six apsaras. Apsaras means once again, they did not belong to this planet. There is this whole story how those six bodies were merged into one. Essentially, every description about Shiva indicates that he did not belong to this planet. In fact, in the Shiva sutras, he is being referred to as yakshaswaroopi, that means he is not from here. I never considered all these things could be true, but after having been at Manasarovar, and after what we have witnessed and experienced there, this is all becoming one big reality, which is leaving me trembling within myself right now.
The basic material they seem to use to do whatever they are doing there is electric blue in color and it is kept like a sacred space. And I don’t have to tell you, every significant God in this culture has always been described as blue-bodied.
When we went this time, it opened up a different reality. There is something happening there which is incredible and indescribable. Beneath the lake, there is a space where something beyond what we can logically imagine is happening, and this process is yet to be deciphered. It is a huge cavity with various kinds of life processes happening there, some of it the way we know life, most of it we don’t know. The basic material they seem to use to do whatever they are doing there is electric blue in color and it is kept like a sacred space. And I don’t have to tell you, every significant God in this culture has always been described as blue-bodied. Anyone who has walked the yogic path and has done a certain type of sadhana, naturally his aura turns blue, electric blue. It is very difficult to articulate what I have seen in Manasarovar because it is logically impossible to explain. It is life, but not the way we know it.
- Yakshas: Celestial beings who are believed to inhabit secluded places
- Ganas: According to Hindu legend, attendants of Shiva who live in Kailasa
- Deva [Sanskrit for God, deity]: Gods or celestial beings in Hindu mythology
- Mahabharat: one of the two major Sanskritepics of ancient India
Realm of the Mystic – not for the faint hearted
